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Re: Vandoren v12 right side stiffness

Author: WhitePlainsDave
Date: 2015-01-23 17:56

Vandoren claims to not only cut their reeds with symmetry with respect to the midline that is parallel to the length of the reed, but do to so with accuracy less than the thickness of a human hair. (I can probably find the Vandoren video I heard this in if necessary.)

And yet my experience, using multiple Vandoren mouthpieces (currently an M15) is consistent with that of the O.P.

I agree the admitted small quantities of D'addario Reserve reeds I've tried are like "the consistency out of the box of synthetics, with the best of cane attributes."

I conceed the causes for this feeling that the right side of Vandoren (not just V12 for me) and some other non-D'addario brands of reeds:

* unknown to me,
* likely multifactorial, and
* entirely plausible to have at least some human factor (i.e. me) as its cause.

We should probably survey players in Australia. Their toilet water you know, flushes in the wrong, err.....other direction. I bet I'd need to shave down the left side of reeds if I played "down under." [wink]