That's almost like having a parent come into the music store demanding a replacement reed because the one that came on her childs clarinet broke. It had to be defective.
It was funny watching the clerk explain that reeds are disposable.
Things I don't understand:
1. If I ask you (as in, "You, the person that e-mails me", not "You, Tammi") for a picture of your horn to help me identify it and you send me a 4px by 4px blob that's so badly out of focus I can barely identify it as a musical instrument, why do you think I'm going to be able to tell you anything from that? I don't have some sort of "super re-focus filter and biggerizer" on my computer. If YOU can't make out any details, I can't make out any details, either.
2. For the love of all that's holy, why do people persist in sending me extreme closeups of rust patterns on their horns? It's better than the interesting mold patterns one guy sent, I must say, but still ....
Look, I'm really good at identifying saxophones. A person recently sent me a closeup of *just* the serial number of his horn and I could tell him the make, model, year, pitch, finish, damage estimate and approximate value (Conn Pan American stencil, 1930's, Eb alto (low pitch), silver plate, lots, and not much), but I really would rather get as much info as possible. Which is why I ranted about that
in another thread.
When I first got my first clarinet a zillion years ago, when the earth was still cooling, I really didn't know that you needed to buy reeds or that you could get more than one, just like I didn't know you could get different mouthpieces. I can
almost understand the bit on the reed, then.
The only thing I haven't had was someone sending me a picture of a saxophone neckstrap and then asking what make/model his horn is. It'll happen.
(I do have pictures of horns with original neckstraps and that can be kewl: an SML Gold Medal with an SML neckstrap, SML reeds and an SML mouthpiece? That's
stock, baby!)
Sorry. Pet peeve. Move along ....