Author: tylerleecutts
Date: 2014-12-22 05:19
Music performance seems to be the only industry where we tolerate and sometimes deny serious problems in consistency. Buffet certainly has noticeable flaws in production, but you can't deny Vandoren does as well, as well as other products.
The Reserve mouthpieces may seem too resistant, but perhaps that is because some players try to use reeds that are simply too hard. The resistance is namely in the inner chamber, which can be alleviated easily if the player desired. However, for many of the Reserve converts (including myself), the resistance of the mouthpiece is healthy.
Vandoren is namely the most popular reed for two reasons: Indonctrination and Length of Market Share. Namely, the first is to blame. The Reserve products gained huge momentum I believe when the branding was changed. Many dismissed the Rico name for no reason other than their own prejudices.
Like I said before, I should never open a box of reeds and find several of them to be either absolutely unplayable, or GREEN. It is also very disadvantageous to students when 5 M30 mouthpieces play and measure drastically different.
Dismissing an issue as "acceptable" does not in turn validate the existence of it.
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