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Bass Clarinet Reeds

Author: rick77
Date: 2011-10-16 23:15

I'm a lifelong sax player who now also plays soprano and bass clarinet. I've only had the bass clarinet for about a year now and haven't tried many different brands of reeds. The first bass clarinet reeds I bought were Vandoren (blue box) 3's but they wore out very quickly and sounded very thin on my Vandoren B-45 bass clarinet mpc. So I then tried Vandoren (blue box) 3.5 and they were extemely dull sounding and lifeless for me. I usually order reeds from WW&BW and don't really see any other options other than Rico reeds which I don't care for at all on my other clarinet and saxes, except for the Rico Jazz Selects and they don't offer those for bass clarinet at WW&BW.

What are some good reed brands for bass clarinet (not synthetic) that are readily available at online stores? I actually have been using tenor sax Rico Jazz Select 3M on my bass clarinet recently and I'm thinking that the 3H would work well on my set-up for Jazz playing.

I'd like to find a good bass clarinet reed for all around playing which for me would include Jazz combo's and community concert band playing.

Thanks for any helpful advice!

P.S. FWIW, I play Mithell Lurie #4 reeds on soprano clarinet with a Vandoren B-45 mpc. Very playable setup for me.

On tenor sax I play Rico Jazz Select 3M on a Doc Tenney perfected Otto Link STM 7* which is an incredible setup for me.

Soprano Sax - Rico Jazz Select 3M reeds on a Doc Tenney hard rubber 7 Otto Link mpc. A pretty good setup but not perfect.

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