Klarinet Archive - Posting 000683.txt from 2003/07

From: Georg.Kuehner@-----.de (Georg K=?ISO-8859-1?B?/A==?=hner)
Subj: Re: [kl] New type of reed by Vandoren
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 10:26:34 -0400

Hello Marc,

I designed my own reed for German Clarinet with a CNC machine and the funny
thing is that I use blanks with 3.2 thickness and at the tip my reeds are
even al ittle bit thicker (15/100mm)

Maybee they are copying my reed :-)))

Best Georg

> Hi all,
>
> Vandoren is making a new type of reed: 56 Rue Lepic reeds
> (http://www.vandoren.com/Product/vanMID.htm). It looks like what the V12
> was compared to the traditional reed is the 56 Rue Lepic compared to the
> V12. It has a thicker tip (T:0.09 V12:0.10 56R:0.11) and a thicker heel
> (T:2.8 V12:3.15 56R:3.25). Sounds promising, I liked the V12 more than
> the traditional.
>
> Has anybody tried these? What where your findings.
>
> Marc

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