Great buy for the newbie to Reed scraping/ adjustment.
As a ‘newbie’ to adjusting/ repairing this convex ebony oboe plaque was a great, inexpensive purchase.
It really does support the reed, is very forgiving when scraping and is quite reassuring working with the reed. For me, a bargain buy as I’ve successfully improved reeds without splitting them and I put this down to using this plaque.
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Jennifer S.
Excellent service and a very
Excellent service and a very good convex oboe plaque.
Looks good on the screen but much small than anticipated. Oboe reeds are 71-73mm which is at the end of the callipers range; at which point it's starting to fall apart. The engraved measurements are difficult to reed (sic). Nice piece of brass, though.
Our order took weeks longer then the timeframe indicated on the product description. I had to contact Crooks many times for updates on my order, there was no courtesy updates on the order shared. I had to really push for the supplier to be contacted for an update.
After a brief initial soak both reeds have sounded good but one was playing a bit flat to start. This now seems to be improving, but of course much of the fault could be with the player!