Reeds Reeds Reeds...
When I first started playing the oboe, I had no idea that salespeople didn't always have a firm grasp on the different types of reeds. Could they even tell the difference between an oboe and a clarinet? Sometimes I wondered... This is a real conversation I had with the salesman at a music store when I first started playing oboe: "I need 3 medium-hard oboe reeds." He looked at me and said, "is that like a 2 1/2?" I had no idea what he was talking about, but trusted that since