Author: gwie
Date: 2017-03-22 00:00
I bought two boxes of strength 4 to share with my high school students, the majority of which are playing either Vandoren V12 3.5 or D'Addario Reserve Classic 3.5 on a whole range of different mouthpieces.
They are ecstatic about the consistency from reed to reed, and the general response which is generally better than that of their regular reeds. Time will tell how long they last, but we did not get a single truly "bad" reed out of the batch, and perhaps one or two were only a touch soft. I think in general they feel a tiny bit less resistant than the Vandoren and D'Addario 3.5's.
However,I found the 4's a bit too resistant feeling on my Behn Epic HCV mouthpiece, probably because I've been playing on only Legere Signature European Cut 3.5 since December and those feel softer to me than the Vandoren or D'Addario 3.5's. I've ordered two additional boxes in the 3.5 strength!
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