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Cane Quality

Author: Morrigan
Date: 2007-06-29 13:14

I've heard people going on about cane quality and complaining about Vandoren reeds a lot here over the years.
I recently had one of my bi-yearly spats where I decide that Vandoren make terrible reeds and surely there's something better out there, and so ordered a 'sampler' of reeds. Out of 4 brands, I quite liked Grand Concert Select Evolution, but for some reason after the first box things went downhill. I noticed the cane is a little sloppy and they took on too much water, and never seemed to break in and become stable.
So I went back to Vandoren only to find that, in my opinion and from the little I know about reeds and cane, they seemed to be MUCH better: they break in nicely after about a week and seem to be quite stable once you've done so. They're also not too much of a mystery to me; I know what to do to make them work.

So, my question is, how do we define cane quality? Can be it measured? Is Vandoren REALLY that bad?

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