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RE: Morre Reeds (sp?)

Author: Daniel
Date: 2001-10-29 17:22

I have bought some reeds from Marks and some from Mr. Alexander (owner of the Alexander line of reeds). Even if most of these are of poorer quality than the boxes available in the 60's and 70's, many of them are still great reeds. Unfortunately they very much more widely in a box than any commercial reed of present. One reed will be a tree, and the next will be tissue paper. But i've managed to work most of them into usable concert/solo reeds.

It's not really worth the $30+ per box that Marks sold them for a few years ago (probably a bit more nowadays). I've had better luck with the old plastic purple box Vandorens as far as consitency. But even those command $20-$30 per box depending on the source.

I think you're better off either learning how to make reeds from scratch, or working good quality commercial reeds.

Daniel

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