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Author: Chloe
Date: 2000-09-16 17:20
Hi,
I've been dissatisfied with my Vandoren 3s for a while and have tried Mitchell Lurie Standard and Premium, V12s and Grand Concerts which are the basic stock of my local store and although they all have positive characteristics am convinced there must be something better (or just different?) out there too. I've found a site online which sells various reeds and want to try something new. I ran a search on previous posts and didn't find any posts on anything except Zonda so I wondered if anyone had tried Daniel's, any of the Reeds Australia range, Sinus Model Fs or Neuranter and what they thought. If anyone has any comments they'd be much appreciated!
TIA,
Chlo
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Author: Nate Zeien
Date: 2000-09-17 10:47
Chloe, I myself use Vandoren V-12s that I've adjusted myself. The Vandoren V-12s are a pretty good reed to begin with, so it doesn't take a whole lot of effort to adjust them. Just a little scraping here and there in just the right spots, and you can have one nice playing reed. I have never tried Reeds Australia. Where can you find these? -- Nate Zeien
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Author: Hiroshi
Date: 2000-09-18 00:07
I recently tried Steurer-French cut. It is a thick heel reed, has firm heart. As to Reed Australia, I disliked them. They did not vivrate as I expected. Maybe Japan's climate is not good for them.
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Author: Meredith
Date: 2000-09-18 00:29
Reeds Australia make Vintage and Vintage XL reeds to my knowledge and are quite popular amongst Australian professional clarinet players. I didn't like the Vintage reeds when I tried them, they were really hard but found the XLs much better although not completely to my liking. My altissimo notes were fantastic and I could easily blow a top A from ppp to fff. My chalemeau notes seem to lack a bit of warmth though. I'll persist with them a bit longer and see if I can get used to them.
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Author: Chris Ondaatje
Date: 2000-09-18 03:13
I keep coming back to Vandoren V12's#3. In my desperate quest for the perfect reed (or even a half decent one) I have also tried the Australian reeds and the Rico Grand Concert. All brands seem to need varying degrees of adjustment. Of the Australian reeds I found the more recent ones better than the older ones. Each box tells you when the cane was harvested. The XL 1994 box of 10 gave me 2 performance standard reeds and 4 practice type reeds, the other 4 were awful. The 1990 Vintage box produced only 5 practice reeds. For me a typical Vandoren V12 box gives 2 performance reeds,3practice reeds and 5 disasters. I haven't had any luck with the Grand Concert,but a collegue plays them and he sounds great.A supplier gave me a bow of Olivier reeds to try(spanish?). Each reed felt initially like a plank of wood. With massive adjustment I got 2 to be of performance standard. Unfortunately the cut of the tip didn't seem to fit my Vandoren mouthpiece so I didn't feel confident enough to use the reed.
Good luck with your quest.
Chris.
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Author: Nate Zeien
Date: 2000-09-18 04:16
Yes, the last Olivieri's that I bought were very poor. Olivieri's were a pretty good reed fo a while, but the last box I bought were absolute crap. About as useful as a box of Ricos. That's when I went to the Vandoren V-12's. Not all of these are ready to use right out of the box, but they're pretty nice after you adjust them. You can get a lot more good reeds out of a box this way. -- Nate Zeien
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Author: Hiroshi
Date: 2000-09-18 05:47
Other info:
Olivieri: I used this reeds around 1976-1980. Then they were made in Spain and sounded quite good. The quality of cane and finish were easily observed. I recently bought 10 boxes of Olivieri, now made in U.S.,and were quite disappointed.
Alexander Classique: this was designed on the old MORRE reeds like V12. Unlike V12 its tip thickness is thin and enables me to emit ppp easily. Moreover,the bottom is literally 'flat' and they say they use genuine Var region cane. I do not add any adjustment on this reed.
Zonda Classico:this is Zonda's newly designed reed for brighter tone than ordinary Zonda. I like this one.
Now I am searching for Prestini reed. Cane from France,manufactured in Italy. Famous oboe reed manufacturer.
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Author: Graham Elliott
Date: 2000-09-18 08:07
Standard Zondas are certainly worth trying if you prefer a dense complex tone colour. Neuranter are good, although i found that they seemed to chage for the worse fairly early in life. I have had better success with Neuranter Bass Clarinet reeds.
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Author: Beejay
Date: 2000-09-18 21:20
I never hear anyone speak of Glotin reeds. Are they not available in the United States. I buy them in Paris and find them very good indeed.
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Author: Dee
Date: 2000-09-18 22:46
Beejay wrote:
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I never hear anyone speak of Glotin reeds. Are they not available in the United States. I buy them in Paris and find them very good indeed.
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Yes, Glotin reeds are available here in the US. I have some friends who play them.
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Author: Jean-Claude Vandermiere
Date: 2000-09-19 00:59
Hiroshi wrote:
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Other info:
>>Alexander Classique: this was designed on the old MORRE reeds like V12. Unlike V12 its tip thickness is thin and enables me to emit ppp easily. Moreover,the bottom is literally 'flat' and they say they use genuine Var region cane. I do not add any adjustment on this reed.>>
I agree w/ Hiroshi Re: the Classiques ; these , IMO are
excellent
>>> Zonda Classico:this is Zonda's newly designed reed for brighter tone than ordinary Zonda. I like this one.>>>
These I'd be interested to try , as I don't care for the
regular Zondas .
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Author: larry
Date: 2000-09-19 15:39
I've been switching back and forth between the usual Vandoren #3.5 and Daniels over the past few months. The Daniels reeds are very good and consistent - slightly thicker sounding, but they last a long time. They're a bit overpackaged - each reed coming in its own reusable reed holder - even more wasteful than Vandoren.
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Author: Hiroshi
Date: 2000-09-20 00:42
Yesterday, I found Rico started to sell as one of the Rico Grand Concert series 'Evolution'. I bought a box and started to tame the reeds. Cane is very good-looking. Did anyone already try these? To me this seems somewhat eclectic of blue box and red box(thick blank).
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