Klarinet Archive - Posting 000943.txt from 1997/11

From: Josh-Boy <joshcole@-----.Edu>
Subj: Re: New Grand Concert Reeds
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:26:54 -0500

Thanks for the suggestions... in my hometown, only two kinds of reeds were
offered: Ricos and Vandoren (just regular ones, not V12's). So it really
wasn't until my junior year in high school that I discovered that there
were more brands of reeds (we were secluded like you wouldn't believe!).
But not until I got here to NMSU did I find out about Rico GC's.

Any other suggestions on reeds? Thanks.

Josh

On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Jennifer Rose McKenna wrote:

> in resoponse: i'm sure that everyone has tried V12's if they don't already
> use them. I have found the V12's to be rather inconsistant, i don't enjoy
> finding 1 workable reed per box of 10! i'm in the process of finding
> better reeds and that was where i located the rico grand concerts, which
> are some of the best reeds i have come across so far, and your comment
> toward using rico reeds during marchng season, those are the elementary
> reeds that rico makes, and i do not enjoy the cut, actually come to think
> of it, i haven't found any american cut reeds, other thatn the grand
> concerts, that i enjoyed, i'm using the opera reeds now, and they are
> french cut along with the vandoren reeds and i enjoy theses reeds,
> although they require a little work. and i also enljoy the zonda reeds.
> they also require a bit of work. so needless to say i am very interested
> in finding out what happened to my new favorite reeds, the rico grand
> concets, so anyone one with info on it i would greatly appreciate it.
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> thanks!
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> jennifer mckenna
> jrm0013@-----.edu
> university of north texas
> clarinet concentration/music ed major
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