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Re: Vandoren v12 right side stiffness

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2015-01-23 17:39

Interesting. My experience has been that the harder side is the left side (looking at the reed on the mouthpiece).

Left side thickness has been a complaint about Vandoren reeds since I was a student in the 1960s and, I'm sure, before that. I can only repeat the conventional wisdom (lore?) - I've never read a confirmation by anyone official at Vandoren - that it is/was s a design feature. The theory, supposedly, has been that when we hold a clarinet on our right thumb we tend naturally to put some rotational pressure on the instrument that slightly presses the left rail of the reed against the lips.

I haven't noticed consistent hardness on the right side of Vandorens - I'm currently using mostly Traditionals, though I also use 56 Rues and V.12s. I still find them more often heavy on the left.

Karl

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