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Re: 5 strength reeds

Author: clarinetguy ★2017
Date: 2009-10-10 21:32

KDK said:
There was a time during that period - may have been the early 1970s - when distributorship problems (or was it weather damage to the cane crop? - there was always some excuse or another) were making Vandorens hard to get in the U.S..

I think you're right. I suppose that some people may have ordered from mail-order outfits back then, but in the days before the Internet we relied mostly on our local music stores. Now that you mention it, I can recall many visits and phone calls to music stores asking if they had Vandorens in stock. Sometimes they did (we'd breathe a sigh of relief), but often the answer was, "I'm sorry, but we're sold out." I'd ask when the next shipment was due to arrive, and the answer was usually, "I don't know, but I'm hoping it's soon. Maybe in a couple weeks."

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