Klarinet Archive - Posting 000605.txt from 2003/06

From: <roryc@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Survey - What brand of reeds do you use?
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 21:44:33 -0400

I use Glotan and vandoren and (rico royal occasionaly)
Quoting klarinet <klarinet@-----.net>:

> Gonzalez FOF 3.5 on an early 1970's Vandoren
> crystal, or Gonzalez 3.75 on an
> original Ch. Chedeville, Fobes or Borbeck.
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> I have to mention that after using Vandoren
> reeds for more than 30 years I
> said good-bye to them when about two years ago
> the "powers that be" decided
> to change the tip shape. That fact, along with
> the apparent decline in their
> cane quality (sparse fibers which don't even
> extend to the tip, miscuts,
> green cane, etc...) over the past few years was
> enough to finally change
> off them for good.
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> Perhaps when some of their newer cane fields are
> ready to meet their present
> demand, and Vandoren decides to not use cane
> which many years ago would have
> been discarded, I will retry their reeds.
>
> Glenn B. Kantor
> Principal clarinet - The Sound Symphony
> http://www.soundsymphony.org
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