Klarinet Archive - Posting 000337.txt from 1996/10

From: Everett Austin <austine@-----.EDU>
Subj: vandoren!
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 03:59:50 -0400

On the subject of Vandoren visits in Paris, I remembered and anecdote
that Pamela Weston recounts in the chapter on Stanley Drucher in one of
her books. Mr Drucker is said to have visited the Vandoren shop rue
Lepic in Paris and asked to see the person who put the one good reed in
each box. Evidently they were not amused...

Everett Austin

On Fri, 11 Oct 1996, Starr
Schaftel Wayne wrote:

> 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
>