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bass clartinet reed choices

Author: Ebclarinet1
Date: 2007-06-08 12:09

Was testing out a bunch (over 12) of different brands of bass clarinet reeds last night and what I thought I liked was not what I found actually sounded the best. I have a Buffet Prestige bass to low C with a Grabner mouthpiece and Van Doren Optimum ligature, so some of my comments might be related to that horn

Had been playing Gonzalez reeds (#3) for the past year. I thought their sound and response were quite good but last night the Grand Concert reeds sounded much better, responsive over a greater range and able to hit ppp on almost the entire range. The quality of sound on the best notes on the Gonzalez may have been better. On these notes it seemed to give a fuller tone but it was less consistently good over the range of the horn. The Grand Concert reeds also required less adjustment so it might be the Gonzalez reeds will eventually be as good or better.

In the past I was a tried and true Van Doren user, like I guess most of were/ are. Anyway, I'd appreciate comments on these brands or any others. What have you tried and what do you like?

Thanks!

Eefer guy

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