My father once told me that oboe players were all a little crazy because of the back pressure from their reeds. Now all of us clarinet and saxophone players know we have it easy next to those double reed players. In most cases they have to make their own reeds.

So darn true … except for the “little” crazy bit. I would suggest a LOT crazy.

Okay, just speaking for myself. ;-)

I read the above here, where the single reed blogger has discovered decent synthetic reeds. May I admit extreme jealousy? I’ve heard recently that a number of single reeders are moving to synthetic reeds. And yes, it’s just a little bit depressing that we can’t do that.

Sigh.