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Re: Decline in reed quality - Alternatives?

Author: Andrez444
Date: 2013-09-28 12:26

I agree with the need to work on reeds irrespective of brands, and actually even reeds which sound pretty good straight out of the box always respond to some TLC and not over playing in the first few days.

Leslie Craven did a super reed review for the CASS magazine here in the UK and I took on some of his feedback and ordered couple of boxes of Marca Reeds.

I find them really refreshing from the Vandoren V12s which I normally would use.

In addition my teacher introduced me to a reed manufactured in Germany called Sinus.

I have gotten on really well with those reeds also, and find they help to produce a full rich sound with clean articulation.

One of the unique selling points of sinus reeds are their longevity,and even though I do rotate 8 to 10 reeds at a time, I have had one loyal land very trusted friend on since the start of a very busy summer.

Experimenting with reeds and set ups is always a nice thing to do once in a while though I am a believer that the player makes the set up work rather than the other way around.

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