reeds

It's too far into the reeds of arbitrary grammatical prescriptivism for my liking, without conveying any useful extra meaning.

And then it became, iirc, a lighting-rod for interpersonal problems amongst the single-reeds that became disruptive.

The idea was that a mechanical arrangement of reeds tuned to different pitches would pluck out each stream of data.

The current model, where accomplished bassoonists and teachers make reeds to meet the small, local demand, seems to at least be workable.

I pointed out reeds as only a secondary issue because there seem to be more oboists than bassoonists.

I'm slightly squicked by the idea that someone would test your reeds on their bassoon before you get them.

My instructor told me that I'd likely need to learn to make my own reeds, too.

Or bundles of papyrus reeds or balsawood rafts, as Thor Heyerdahl demonstrated.

At the woodwind shop I buy reeds from, it's pretty standard practice to try before you buy when looking for something new.

I used to pay $20 for a reed that my tutor made (about the same price as a box of nice clarinet reeds).

It's an instrument that forms an odd bond as well; I recently met another bassoonist and we dropped everything we were doing to make reeds together.

The Grand Rapids Yacht Club (on Reeds Lake in East Grand Rapids) has some classes but I don't know if it's really comparable to Boston's program.

Reeds' unique contribution wasn't in solving the problem, but in communicating the solution in an accessible way.

Here's the article describing the solution: Reeds, Jim.