Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2017-08-11 05:09
KenJarczyk wrote:
> Interesting! What show?
Music Man - Reed 3 has Bb clarinet, Eb clarinet and soprano sax. I don't know what revision it is - I'm sure the last times I played in the pit for it, there were no soprano saxes or Eb clarinets involved. The weirdest thing is the "Dixie style" solo in 76 Trombones Ballet - for Eb clarinet.
> I'm not too certain on the old strengths vs. new, though. I do
> believe Vandoren offers Eb reeds in Blue Box and V12. There
> was some talk of them coming in the new V21 cut, too...
Yeah, they're out in V21 now. I've been using shortened Bb reeds - mostly V.12s - but I thought I'd try going back to Eb reeds and see what I gain or loose.
The problem, as I've written about before, is that Vandoren seems to have designed so much more resistance into their reeds that the #5 Bb reeds are, at least for me, unusable out of the box without major work. And now I find the #5 Eb reeds don't even exist. Traditionals stop at #4 and V.12 and V21 stop at #4.5. And if my experience is typical, the top strengths are more like blanks that the player has to finish for himself.
Karl
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