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Re: A Legere query

Author: GBK
Date: 2008-08-23 15:54

William -

Not to change the direction of this thread, but for me, the Vandoren Flow Pack reeds have been a huge step backwards.

Everything about them is just wrong - from the excess packaging, to the fact that you can not see and visually judge the reed until you open a hermetically sealed foil wrapper, to the mushy cane quality of many of the recent reeds I've tried, and to the shorter than normal lifespan of any potentially playable reed.

Vandoren marketing gives numerous reasons for the change to Flow Pack packaging, but I think it's all smoke and mirrors to hide a few recent years of bad cane.

It's humorous how Vandoren touts the benefit of the Flow Pack as getting news reeds (to play) at consistant humidity (right from Paris) directly out of the box, but then recommends NOT TO PLAY new reeds more than a few minutes during the first few days.

Wouldn't that defeat the so-called purpose of the Flow Pack packaging? ...GBK

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