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Longeireann
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(Date Posted:23/06/2007 01:20:50)

Greetings, I am considering a special order of a Castagnari Dinn 3-voice MMM. I have tried the Dinn 2 and discovered I like the proportions of the keyboard and the action. However, I favor a 3-voice sound, and I also favor very hard bellows dynamics which I am afraid would damage the fine reeds of the Castagnari. Although some might consider it blasphemous, do you know if Castagnari will make a box with the rougher, non-handmade reeds? thanks for any advice- cheers.

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(Date Posted:23/06/2007 10:23:04)

My Castagnari Tommy is 15 years old and has spent the whole time being played by a gorilla in the outdoors for morris, previously when playing Hohners I regularly broke reeds. I can not imagine someone playing harder than I do and have never had a problem with the reed set.
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(Date Posted:23/06/2007 13:56:00)

Reply to : Lester Bailey
My Castagnari Tommy is 15 years old and has spent the whole time being played by a gorilla in the outdoors for morris, previously when playing Hohners I regularly broke reeds. I can not imagine someone playing harder than I do and have never had a problem with the reed set.

completely agree. I too have broken quite a few hohner reeds but never  hand made reeds in castagnari's,  or paolo soprani's or for that matter those in my much used serenellini salterelo, which I am not sure if hand made or mere 'factory' jobs ,whatever their status is amongst reeds thy respond well, sound nice & will stand up to hard work.

I have a feeling that reed  durability is more down to using good  steel    than to the  fit  or tuning of the reeds - perhaps the  reed experts could enlighten us

george
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(Date Posted:23/06/2007 14:41:04)

Interesting information, gentlemen. When I borrowed a 2-voice Dinn, it struck me as very easy to overblow the reeds and distort the tone, compared with my own 2-voice Saltarelle without tipo-a-mano reeds. Based on this I judged they would be easier to break but perhaps that was an incorrect conclusion on my part. Perhaps it's not fragility I'm worried about, but merely the propensity to overblow.
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(Date Posted:23/06/2007 20:54:54)

My experience doing repairs is that I replace dozens of Hohner reeds for every one Italian reed. Of course you will also have to factor in the relative numbers of Hohners vs Italians, but I would have no worries about better quality reeds being fragile.
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RE:Castagnari reed options?
(Date Posted:05/12/2007 17:49:37)

Probably too late by now, but I'd second what some others have said. I used to have a Hohner D/G and was probably blowing one or two reeds a months through playing in a ceilidh band, and for morris. I changed to a Castagnari Rik about 17 years ago, and have blown about six reeds since then. Admitedly I play less these days, but it was still being played as regularly as the Hohner was for the first 10 years or so I had it.I also find it almost impossible to overblow it in the mid range, though it is possible (but not easy) lower down the scale.I too am a very loud player.Clive 
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