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Re: So it has to be the cane right?

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2017-07-22 21:43

Just to be clear, the quality of the cane being used can't help but make a difference in the product, and it's true that you can't "make a silk purse from a sow's ear" (apologies to sows everywhere).

I just don't think it's necessarily the determining factor when you compare different reed brands and like one better than another. If it were only the cane quality in question, why would several people in this thread and others remark that they find 56 Rue lepics much more playable than V.12s. I'm not sure it's reasonable to think Vandoren is using different harvests from different places for each of their different models. They're cut differently. I think Steuer Exlusives have a different profile from V.12 as well. So do Arias. Steuer Classics are cut differently from Exclusives - a difference that's unlikely to have anything to do with where the cane used to make them is grown or what kind of growing conditions prevailed.

And comments that with enough work any reed can be made to play the way you want it to play if the cane quality is good are true. It's a question of how much time you want to invest in customizing the most impermanent part of your setup if there are other brands that will produce the result you want without putting in as much time (with the risk of failure proportional to the amount of adjustment that is applied).

Karl

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