Jones Double Reed Products
Location: Spokane, WA (but product is available through various retailers)
Web site: Jones Double Reeds
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April 28th, 2008 at 8:42 am
by the time I’ve broken them in, they’ve closed.
March 19th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
I’ve used Jones oboe reeds for as long as I can remember. I’ve tried a lot of other brands and Jones seem to be the only ones that really work for me. And they have to work well… I got a scholarship on oboe to Cal State Fullerton using a Jones reed…
March 1st, 2008 at 7:56 pm
i used them when i was a beginner, but later on i realized that they werent so great for trying to achieve a maturer oboe sound. i guess they’re OK for students, but they do last long. one of my band directors asked what kind of reed i used when i was a beginner, and when i said, “jones”, his reaction was “oh dear”…
February 29th, 2008 at 12:34 am
Yeah, i’ve tried the hard ones and they collapse really fast. I’ve once encounter whereby the medium is actually harder than the hard. Which is quite ridiculous. Overall, i love jones because i’ve been using it for many years, its just try and play kinda thing. But since jones’ is like closed down already.. its a good time to try others
December 2nd, 2007 at 4:14 pm
The regular series is a good beginner reed because they are easy to play on, but they often have a shrill tone. The artist series is a lot better, but you never know if you’re going to get a good reed or not.
November 9th, 2007 at 1:34 pm
I tended to like the Artist brand Jones reeds, and they work pretty well for a intermediate to advanced student, but I found they had a reliability problem (some were great, others were just “okay”).
Jones now has seemed to drop off the face of the earth. About 4 months ago, for about 6 weeks, they had a production problem which prevented them from making reeds. They started again in late July, but as of mid-September, they have not been returning phone calls, shipping now reeds, answering their phones, etc.. Now I believe that they have gone out of business.
November 2nd, 2007 at 11:00 am
I do not like the regular jones reeds. They are ok for beginers who are just learning how to produce a sound. However,…. the Artist Reeds by Jones work very nicely. I have played most of the time on them and they seem to work fine. The only problem is that right now the jones company is so fa behind in shipping and making reeds that they are only making the student regular reeds and have stopped production on the artist series. any suggestions as to a better brand???
October 26th, 2007 at 8:33 am
What retailers sell them?
October 20th, 2007 at 6:35 am
Is Jones out of business? Website no longer seems to exist?
October 20th, 2007 at 6:31 am
Jones website no longer works. Are they closing the doors as rumor has it?
August 14th, 2007 at 8:18 pm
Jones will make an okay sound, but try not to use it! It will only make the nice sound if you pinch it, and if you get older and more serious into oboe, you embouchure will get completely screwed up, then your college professors (me) will have to teach you the right way! Don’t buy a Jones!
May 2nd, 2007 at 12:53 pm
I have played oboe for four years, and all the time I’ve been trying to find a great reed. Out of the reeds that I’ve tried, Jones seems the best (only if it’s their medium hard). I’ve only tried about four or five brands of reed though. It is great for beginners, but right now I would like to find one with more consistent tone quality (about half have good tone). They usually only last me one to three months though (I play every day for fourty-five minutes to an hour or two).
January 26th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
I started on these reeds, in fact a Jones was the reed I received when we bought my oboe. Now I really don’t like them because they are very squeky. They’re good if you’re just starting and aren’t sure what to buy b/c they don’t break too easily…
December 13th, 2006 at 8:48 am
I found there was no hear to my pupils reed when i played on it. In turn she had problems with both tone and intonation.
September 2nd, 2006 at 9:52 am
don’t last long, but med-hard produses nice tone for begginers, hard collapses quickly
August 24th, 2006 at 7:15 am
I have an oboe performance degree and teach a large studio — I’m constantly chasing my students away from Jones reeds. I am incapable of producing a decent sound on them, so you can imagine how a student sounds!
April 27th, 2006 at 5:05 pm
Note I am a complete beginner and judge my comments accordingly! My Fox 330 came with a Fox reed and one Jones Med-Soft. I had a hard time making a consistent tone with the Fox reed, and when I switched to the Jones it immediately sounded better. So, for a complete newbie, it seems to be a better reed than a factory reed.
April 22nd, 2006 at 8:38 pm
Every Jones reed I’ve bought has been extremely short-lived, the main problem being that the reed collapsed. I find that even the harder strengths play with a very thin sound, as if the reed is too soft for you. I really don’t recommend them.
April 10th, 2006 at 5:14 am
Reeds have worked well for a small child learning the oboe. However, I think she needs to go onto a better reed now as they seem to be squeaky. Consistent reed and would recommend. Quite cheap too.
March 29th, 2006 at 11:41 pm
18 month newbie - found Jones medium & medium hard pretty reliable during last year of embouchure development, high percentage of them worked OK right out of the box and blew in easily, but dynamic range and colour weakened quickly after blowing in. Last three months embouchure stronger, reeds collapsing, had to move on. Good hard plastic box for storing reed, although hinges break easily, tape can fix. Good beginners reed.