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Re: good reeds

Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2019-08-04 17:35

When I was a student in NY I studied with Joe Allard for a while and one day he took me on a reed hunt in the music stores in NY. At that time there must have been a dozen music stores like Same Ash, Ponte, Manny's and many others on 47 or 48th street. Back then, the early 60s, every store allowed you to "pick" through several boxes of Vandoren reeds they always kept opened. As we went from one store to another he would pick out several of the "best" reeds for me showing me the color, the grain etc. By the time we finished I had about four dozen boxs of single reeds. Back then Vandoren came in boxes of 20 or 25, can't remember exactly, yea I know. I thought I was in reed heaven, the best reeds for years to come. Well as it ended up, I don't think I had any more good reeds than if I simply bought two new boxes and just play tested them and broke them in. I learned a lot that day and in my career had some of my best reeds that looked like they would never play well. How do you know if it's a good reed, play it and break it in correctly.

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