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Author: BGBG
Date: 2015-08-04 07:13
Is a #2 reed called a Reserve Classic considered a basic low quality reed or an intermediate reed, or what. Someone gave me one today. I also have 5 Mitchell Lurie reeds which the Clarinet Mentors video called an intermediate reed of better quality than the cheapest basic reed. Was wanting to start using a better quality reed than the cheapest Rico in order to get better sound.
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Author: Monsterchef
Date: 2015-08-04 07:35
Not sure about Mitchell Lurie since I've never played them. There are plenty of pros and con students playing Reserve on a regular basis. My personal experience with them has been generally positive apart from their shorter lifespans compared to vandy.
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Author: Exiawolf
Date: 2015-08-04 10:09
The reserve classics were made to compete with Vandoren reeds and as such, are some of the best reeds on the market. Many proffesionals use either the Reserve Line of reeds or one of the vandoren cuts.
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Author: kdk
Date: 2015-08-04 16:30
Reserve Classics are considered top tier reeds, preferred by some experienced players and not by others. Whether or not you end up using Reserve Classics or something else will depend on how easily they let you play, but you were not given a low or intermediate level reed.
Karl
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Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2015-08-04 16:54
They are a professional brand reed. #2 is very soft. I used them as a member of the Baltimore Symphony for many years until I retired two years ago. I still use them though both of clarinet and bass clarinet. The best quality reed I've ever played. If you know how to break them in properly, as I do, they can last a long time. My experience with students using Mitchel Lurie reeds is that they got soft very quickly.
ESP eddiesclarinet.com
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Author: WhitePlainsDave
Date: 2015-08-04 17:20
BGBG:
Since you indicated the reed's strength in your question I want to address this point, as other posters seem to have done less than might be called for here on this one topic.
Best that years of questioning tell me, all reeds of a manufacturer and brand are cut the same, irrespective of strength. The finished reeds are then put through a mechanical process that determines their strength, as mother nature, not their cut, gave to them.
The more common method of effecting this test lies with a machine which blows air on the reed at a known pressure and duration, and then measures the reed's displacement while this air pressure is applied--not unlike an optometric glaucoma test. The more the reed displaces, the weaker the reed is marked by the manufacturer to be. Within the cane fit for making reeds, which cane mother nature makes stronger is not deemed to be better (or worse).
Which size reed is right for you will vary from manufacturer, and is determined by many factors including the mouthpiece you're playing on, and your own embouchure strength.
Even within the one attribute of mouthpiece chosen, many factors come to bear on which reed strength fits a player, including tip opening, and rail length/curve/width, to mention only these.
There is a misunderstanding among some beginning players that reed strength is a surrogate for ability. Don't fall for this. Quite the contrary, I like Mark Nuccio's thoughts on this matter (NY Philharmonic, soon to be Houston).
He advocates playing on the weakest strength reeds that don't compromise your artistry.
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Author: BGBG
Date: 2015-08-06 06:52
I notice that several manufactors have something called a "Reserve Classic" reed. Are these all the same? Mine is in a plastic holder that does not say RICO like my other Rico reeds, but there is something that looks like a "D" with a straight line up and down and some curved lines forming the curve of the D. Like 6 curved lines. And if these are different which is the better or preferred or higher quality?
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Author: WhitePlainsDave
Date: 2015-08-07 23:56
Not to long ago the D'addario Music Company bought the Rico high end reed product line and revamped it.
In my opinion the Rico Reserves were high quality reeds only further enhanced by D'Addario's work.
Perhaps the "D" you see is for "D'addario." This may also explain while you've seen the word "Reserve" on reeds from more than one vendor.
Post Edited (2015-08-07 23:57)
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