Author: zhangray4
Date: 2017-12-15 19:44
You're right, Bob. It was a "dang Vandoren mouthpiece," a M30 13. My band director and awesome colleagues don't care what I use, so that's fine. But I have told them about how bad Vandoren is. It's the teacher whom I've been studying with starting this summer is the one that tries to force me to use Vandorens.
I remember you commenting on other posts that you used to work for Rico, and one time Vandoren ran out of cane, so they bought cane from you guys. I told my other teacher this, whom I'm very close with and is complaining about Vandoren reeds lately, and he was appalled. He said (in Chinese): "it's like Macy's taking stuff from Walmart and selling them in their own stores!" I burst into uncontrollable laughter, and he did too. But I guess it is a pretty good analogy. He was even more disappointed when he heard that Vandoren grows a lot of the cane in Argentina. Back when he was in China studying at the Shanghai Conservatory, he had to make all his reeds from scratch, so he has a lot of knowledge on the quality of cane and stuff like that. He said that growing the cane in Argentina, rather than the Var region of France, would explain why the VD reeds are not as good as they once were.
-- Ray Zhang
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