Klarinet Archive - Posting 000334.txt from 1996/10

From: Starr Schaftel Wayne <starrs@-----.NET>
Subj: Re: Reed Conditioning (was "reed water") - Long!
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 1996 18:20:20 -0400

David Blumberg wrote:
>
> Starr,
> The same reed for 20 years? (just kidding), but I do know a very respected Sax
> Player (Professor), who has written for the Instrumentalist Mag. who has used
> a sax reed for 15 years, and is still using the reed on and off now. I didn't
> believe it until he told me himself.
> David C. Blumberg

David,
The longest that I've ever kept a reed going for was 5 years of
intermittent playing. I bought it at the Vandoren factory in Paris,
where you can actually play the reeds before buying them. During
this particular visit to the factory, I tried 70 reeds, all #4 regulars,
and chose to buy only 7. These 7 reeds were outstanding! But, 7
out of 70 are not such good odds. I think that is the main reason
that people are so fed up with Vandoren reeds.
Starr Schaftel Wayne

   
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