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Author: clarchick
Date: 2010-03-16 01:39
I have Johnston mouthpiece-which reed will be better in your opinions?
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Author: Iceland clarinet
Date: 2010-03-16 02:03
If you have trouble with your current brand/type of reeds or just don't get many playable reeds out of the box even after careful adjustment then you can get many advices here on brands to try out but I can't tell you which one you would like best.
For me the Rue Lepic has deeper tone(more kind of woody sound) in the low register but it's too freeblowing and bright in the high register. I get more uniform tone throughout the register with V-12 and the kind of resistance I like for secure in the high register.
Some people even use both and choose Rue Lepic when they need more clear sound in the acoustics they are playing(when V-12 sounds too muted) and use V-12 when the tone of Rue Lepic is too clear for the acoustics they are playing in.
The setup for each clarinetist is so personal that you should try for yourself. I might even have gone too far in explaining why I like V-12 over Rue Lepic.
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Author: jacoblikesmusic
Date: 2010-03-16 05:45
I probably can't compare the reeds for you on the mouthpiece you play but I have bought both a box of rue lepics and v12s to compare once. For both boxes, most reads were horrible out of the box (as most people know), but after testing and sanding them down, I prefered the rue lepic. Like iceland said there is a darker tone is the lower register, and the upper register wasn't "that bright" for me.
Here's my opinion then: Go try a box of gonzalez F.O.F. reeds. Works for me.
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Author: Iceland clarinet
Date: 2010-03-16 14:10
I have to say that out of the box Vandoren is fine and many more work(not perfect until you adjust the ones that need adjustment) right out of the box than most other brands I've tried but I've tried over 20 different Professional models of reeds:Xilema(all 3 brands)Rico(Evolution and Reserve),Neuranter,Reeds Australia(Vintage unfiled and XL unfiled),Leuthner pl class(French Professional,)Alexander Superial(DC) AW(301 I believe),Rigotti(Gold),Glotin(GII and Gaia 50),Vandoren(V-12,Classic and Rue Lepic),Zonda,Sinus(Model F),Foglietta(Model F and G),Gonzalez(FOF),Marca(Superieure,Tradition,Excel,Peter Ponzol and FG Premium),Legere(standard I believe).
The only models that did not work at all from beginning and after adjustment and 4-5 days of playing were Rico Reserve(about 3 out of 5 went to the garbage from each of the 3 boxes I've tried) and all the Marca models except the FG Premium and the quality of cane from Marca seemed to me to be very poor.
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