If you try and fail…

Friday September 21 2007

— keep plugging away. For a week I’ve been ridiculously busy with the University of Oregon orientation. I’m a New Graduate Student Music School Graduate Teaching Fellow (GTF…).

There’s meetings for:

• New Grad Students
• New Music Grad Students
• Grad GTF…
• New Music Grad GTF…
• New Grad GTF…
• New Music Grad GTF…

I’ve had auditions, placement tests, and meetings. And, I’ve been trying to readjust all of my gouging machines since the last time I blogged an entry. All of my reed orders, cane orders, etc. have been on hold.

Why? Because I’ve been slaving away at my desk making reeds.

So why haven’t any reeds gone out this week? Because my gouge has been messed up since the beginning of the seasonal change.

But faith has been restored, and all is well again in the land of Oboereedworld™. This is good, because now that the gouges have been restored to their proper settings, my reeds are flying out like the breeze!

For my clients who are waiting around wondering where their reeds are, here’s the order of waiting:

1. Client in DE: 3 reeds (ready and going out this weekend)
2. Client at NASA…: 4 reeds (ready to go out this weekend)
3. Client in LA: 20 pieces of cane, will be shipped out early next week
4. Client in AZ: 10 reeds, should go out next week
5. Client in OH: 3 reeds, should go out next week
6. Clients in Newfoundland, Decatur IL, etc. need to be officially firmed up.

The great news is I’m finally cranking out some great reeds! A good time to try them out if you’ve been reading my blog for a while, and wondering what they really are like.

One last note. Order reeds now and you’ll still get the lower price of $15/pro reed. Starting Oct. 1st, all reeds go up in price!

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