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| 4 Professional reeds |
4 Pro Reeds, made to my specifications. |
Cooper |
08/15/10 |
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| Policies |
My policies are based to help me keep my own sanity, and to ensure subscription reed orders of their proper priority. Waiting Times and Orders When you order a reed from me, I do not send out confirmation emails. If you would like to email me to ask whether I… |
Cooper |
03/30/10 |
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| Subscriptions |
In 2009, I watched as my reed waiting times go from a consistent 2 week waiting period, to the current 5-week waiting period it is today. This list varies in time accordingly to the season, but the period has not dipped below 3 weeks since the summer of 2009. Having… |
Cooper |
03/30/10 |
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| Going back to wordpress…. |
Well, I just spent 30 minutes deleting advertisements for anything from car insurance to all sorts of prescription drugs that I’ve never heard of. The downside of my current website is it doesn’t have filtering for people’s comments, and so anyone and their cousin can leave messages. So I’m starting… |
Cooper |
07/30/09 |
1 |
10/23/09 |
| Welcome to the heat… |
Well, we drove just over 1300 miles to relocate to our new home in Chandler, Arizona. We moved in exactly one week ago, and the Qwest internet guy came and hooked up our connection, so I’m back to Internet-land. How did we survive without it!?!?!? (I went nuts without it,… |
Cooper |
07/24/09 |
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| Packin’ up… |
Well, we are just about packed, and ready to head toward Arizona this Tuesday! It’s been a good two years of homecoming to come back here in Eugene, but education awaits and I’m looking forward to living in Arizona near Mr. Weber, Martin, and 4,999,998 other people. |
Cooper |
07/11/09 |
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| Changes in Cooper Wright Reeds over the past years. |
Let me also spell out a few changes that have occurred over the past several years: Oboes oboes oboes! After much switching of oboes, I have finally settled on one oboe that I will probably be playing until the day of my death. Originally starting out with my plastic top… |
Cooper |
05/25/09 |
6 |
01/24/10 |
| FInishing up the tidbits, moving on… |
I’m finishing up my school year, and am down to playing on one recital, and one “pops concert” left. This past week we did Mahler “Symphony 1”, and Maslanka’s “A Child’s Garden of Dreams”, both of which had quite a good amount of oboe stuff. I was relatively pleased with… |
Cooper |
05/25/09 |
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01/09/10 |
| Poulenc 1st Mvt. (Recorded from 15 ft away) |
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05/25/09 |
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| Poulenc 2nd Mvt. (Recorded from 15 ft away) |
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05/25/09 |
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| Poulenc 3rd Mvt. (Recorded from 15 ft away) |
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05/25/09 |
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| Mozart Quartet 3rd Mvt. (Recorded from 15 ft away) |
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05/25/09 |
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| Saint Saens Sonata Mvt. 1 (Recorded from 40 feet away) |
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05/25/09 |
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| Saint Saens Sonata Mvt. 2 (Recorded from 40 feet away) |
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05/25/09 |
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| Saint Saens Sonata Mvt. 3 (Recorded from 40 feet away) |
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05/25/09 |
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| Hindemith Sonata Mvt. 1 (Recorded from 40 feet away) |
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05/25/09 |
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| Hindemith Sonata Mvt. 2 (Recorded from 40 feet away) |
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05/25/09 |
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| Brava! |
Today I drove up to Portland to hear a girl I know play her senior high school recital. Jessica Woolf won the Oregon state high school championship this past year on the Strauss Concerto, and studies with Martin Hebert. Today she played: 1. Marcello Concerto (in C minor) 2. 1st… |
Cooper |
05/10/09 |
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| 3rd time is a charm |
So my new website has one major problem. I’ve tried to write a blog entry twice and it’s automatically logged me out before I could finish my blog entry, and then when I hit the back button, it erased my entire blog entry. Twice. So here I go, Third time’s… |
Cooper |
05/09/09 |
4 |
07/28/09 |
| Ich Habe Genug! (Literally!) |
I’ve had enough! Finished my DMA… audition at Arizona State University about 40 minutes ago, and while I didn’t do great, I didn’t do terribly. It’s so dry down here compared to Oregon, that if I didn’t constantly suck on my reed, it’d dry out and close up very quickly.… |
Cooper |
02/28/09 |
3 |
04/15/09 |
| Busy Week |
I’m not sure if anyone is reading on this new site, but if you are, leave me a message and let me know! This past week has been crazy, and this next week is even crazier. Today (Monday) I went in early and got 1 hour of practicing done at… |
Cooper |
02/23/09 |
4 |
03/03/09 |
| MQOD |
_Quick runs for the cor anglais sound even worse than they do for the oboe. Its tone is less penetrating, more veiled and deeper than that of the oboe, and is therefore not suitable for expressing the gaiety of rustic tunes. _ -Hector Berlioz, Treatise on Orchestration HA! If only… |
Cooper |
02/21/09 |
1 |
02/26/09 |
| A great survey. |
So as you can probably tell, I’ve had a “survey” tab attached to my website. The main purpose of this is to provide a list of questions for new reed ordering people so that I can see approximately what they’re looking for in their orders. My good friend gave me… |
Cooper |
02/21/09 |
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12/23/09 |
| Weber Reeds |
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Cooper |
01/21/09 |
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| RDG |
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Cooper |
01/21/09 |
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| Peter Hurd |
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Cooper |
01/21/09 |
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| Oboeworks |
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Cooper |
01/21/09 |
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| Nora Post |
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Cooper |
01/21/09 |
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| Midwest Musical Imports |
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Cooper |
01/21/09 |
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| McFarland Double Reed Shop |
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Cooper |
01/21/09 |
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| Hannah’s Oboes |
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Cooper |
01/21/09 |
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| Forrests Music |
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Cooper |
01/21/09 |
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| Cygnet Studios |
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Cooper |
01/21/09 |
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| Covey Oboes |
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Cooper |
01/21/09 |
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| Charles Double Reed Company |
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Cooper |
01/21/09 |
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| Carlos Coehlo |
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Cooper |
01/21/09 |
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| Prairie Oboe Companion |
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Cooper |
01/21/09 |
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| Obohemia |
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Cooper |
01/21/09 |
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| Eat, Sleep, Oboe |
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Cooper |
01/21/09 |
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| Oboerista |
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Cooper |
01/21/09 |
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| Oboeinsight |
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Cooper |
01/21/09 |
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| Patricia Mitchell |
Cooper knows reeds. Cooper _really _knows reeds. And he taught me more in the hours we spent yesterday than the lifetime I’ve spent on reeds already. I have a reed now! Actually, I have reeds. Both oboe and English Horn. And I like them! Very much— Cooper is a maniac… |
Cooper |
01/21/09 |
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| Josh Johnson |
In all the years that I have been playing the oboe, I have never played on reeds as consistent from reed to reed as Cooper’s— no matter which reed I choose out of my reed case, I know it’s going to deliver the tone quality, response, and control that I… |
Cooper |
01/21/09 |
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| Mark D. Pye |
PERFECT…!!! Exactly what I like. |
Cooper |
01/21/09 |
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| Other reviews |
For other reviews, visit reedreviews.net. |
Cooper |
01/21/09 |
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| Why choose Cooper Wright Reeds? |
There are many oboe reed makers out there, and it’s hard to know which one to choose. With Cooper Wright Reeds, you receive consistent quality reeds and my personal commitment to work with you in order to get a reed that works best for you and your oboe. I frequently… |
Cooper |
01/20/09 |
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| New Book, New Reed Business Deal! |
Well, I don’t usually advertise stuff very often. But I am gladly offering a reed deal as a celebration of my sister’s new children’s book which is coming out soon! So, buy her book (which is only $12 preorder here at Barnes and Noble) and for every reed you purchase,… |
Cooper |
01/07/09 |
1 |
01/15/09 |
| Interesting Topic: Different types of crows? |
So my website template design has run out, so I was looking at other reedmaker’s websites for ideas. I was looking at Meg Cassell’s reedmaking business website and noticed she had a blog. It had an interesting topic about different kinds of crows. Do you know that there are two… |
Cooper |
12/04/08 |
3 |
04/13/09 |
| Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival DVD/CD: The First Ten Years… |
At the IDRS… convention this past summer, Laila Storch gave my mentor David Weber a DVD… of the Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival’s Commemorative 10 year anniversary DVD…/CD. Mr. Weber watched the DVD… that night and told me that I should buy it immediately, which I did when I got… |
Cooper |
11/20/08 |
1 |
07/11/09 |
| Life, School, and a whole lot more… |
Life has been extremely busy for me, particularly since the end of the school trimester is coming to a close which means concerts! My quintet played on a recital last week, a program which we performed the Sweelinck Variations on a Folk Song (this youtube is not us) and the… |
Cooper |
11/20/08 |
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11/20/08 |