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Author: Napat Techa.
Date: 2016-02-29 09:05
Which strength do you use ???
What do you feel with them ???
...Sorry for my bad English...
Thank you !!!!!
Intermediate clarinetist . Buffet Crampon RC . Nick Solist M Mouthpiece. V12 3.5. Ishimori gold plated ligature and Rovner Versa ligature.
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Author: JHowell
Date: 2016-02-29 20:13
3 1/2, open a box of reserve and reserve Classic at the same time. The classics vibrate a bit more, the reserves a bit harder but seem to sound clearer and last longer. Might as well try them and see what you think, if something works for you, it works.
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Author: kdk
Date: 2016-02-29 20:25
Not to put too fine a point of it, but they're now D'Addario Reserves and Reserve Classics. I don't think they're marketing them under the Rico brand name any more.
Karl
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Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2016-03-01 07:44
Huge difference between the Rico and the D'Addario Reserve reeds.
So which do you really mean?
I used to prefer the Rico Reserves, and now the D'Addario Reserve Classics.
There was a complete redesign when the name changed. Had been planned anyway, and the name change made it easy to distinguish.
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Author: bassclarinet101 ★2017
Date: 2016-03-01 10:38
Curiosity: What are the changes from the Rico Reserves to the D'Addario Reserves (or the Reserve Classics?). I used to use the Rico Reserves quite regularly, and I'd love to know how the line progressed.
-Daniel
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Author: Ed
Date: 2016-03-01 19:25
The Reserve Classic is a really good reed. They are quite consistent and I find them to have a nice resonant sound. Unlike some reeds, I don't have to do very much balancing or adjusting to get the results I want and find them to have a good lifespan. I liked the Rico version, but like the newer D'Addario Version even more. I find that 3.5+ or 4 work for me.
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Author: tylerleecutts
Date: 2016-03-02 02:44
I am with Mr. Blumberg- I played the Rico Reserve (red box) before the change and play the Reserve Classics now.
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Author: Agomongo
Date: 2016-03-03 09:51
3.5+
When I have a good one I feel and (I think I) sound like a million bucks.
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Author: Slowoldman
Date: 2016-03-03 18:35
I agree with Ed--The consistency and not needing a lot of adjustment are very important. As an amateur player (community band variety), finding a "great" reed is less important to me than having a regular go-to for a "good" reed. Having that consistency helps my development as a player, since I'm spending more time playing now than fixing reeds! (I use a #4 on a custom mouthpiece facing similar to an M15.)
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Author: David Eichler
Date: 2024-04-27 03:54
I recently tried a box of the old Rico Reserve reeds, #3.5, after not using anything but Vandoren for a long time. These are Morré-style reeds. I believe the current D'Addario Reserve Classic is the rough equivalent of these. Do the reed strengths run more or less the same between the Rico Reserve and the D'Addario Reserve Classic?
Post Edited (2024-04-28 02:26)
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Author: Ed
Date: 2024-04-28 01:31
It has been a long time since I have seen or played the Rico named version, but I seem to recall that when they switched the branding there was no change. I am not sure if they have changed at all since then.
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Author: Doug Leach
Date: 2024-04-28 04:12
> but I seem to recall that when they switched the
> branding there was no change. I am not sure if they have
> changed at all since then.
Actually when they changed branding to D'Addario, the reed changed completely. See David's comment above. I used to get good results from the Rico Reserve, and pretty good consistency within a box. The D'Addario version was nothing like the Rico version. I had nothing useable from the two boxes I bought. I left and never looked back.
Doug
Ed wrote:
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Author: donald
Date: 2024-04-28 05:52
I used to play the Rico Reserve Classic (Purple box) 4+ and found them about the same strength as V12 3.5+. I still have a couple of unopened boxes of 4.5 somewhere (too hard for my current mouthpiece).
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Author: David Eichler
Date: 2024-04-28 06:08
donald wrote:
> I used to play the Rico Reserve Classic (Purple box) 4+ and
> found them about the same strength as V12 3.5+. I still have a
> couple of unopened boxes of 4.5 somewhere (too hard for my
> current mouthpiece).
I am talking about the Rico Reserve, not the Rico Reserve Classic, which I believe was a french file cut, like the Vandoren traditional. Based on one box only, I find the Rico Reserve (Morré shape) #3.5 to be similar in strength to a Vandoren #3.5 traditional, Rue Lepic #4, and between a V12 #3.5 and #4. So, I am trying to find out if the current D'Addario #3.5 Reserve Classic is similar in strength to the old Rico Reserve (not the Rico Reserve Classic), or to a Vandoren #3.5 traditional, if you are not familiar with the D'Addario reeds but have used the old Rico Reserves. I have looked at various reed strength charts, but these aren't always that accurate, even accounting for box-to-box variations.
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Author: graham
Date: 2024-04-28 21:12
D’Addario originally claimed that the Evolution was the same as the Grand Concert version, only made to tighter tolerances. But they were wrong, because that reed changed significantly.
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Author: kdk
Date: 2024-04-28 21:51
Forgive me - I'm not familiar with the term "Morre-style reed." What does that describe?
Karl
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Author: David Eichler
Date: 2024-04-29 01:41
kdk wrote:
> Forgive me - I'm not familiar with the term "Morre-style reed."
> What does that describe?
>
> Karl
Morré was a brand of reed that no longer exists, which was relatively thick and did not use a french-file shape. Vandoren V12 reeds were designed to be similar to these reeds.
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Author: kdk
Date: 2024-04-29 03:44
David Eichler wrote:
> Morré was a brand of reed that no longer exists, which was
> relatively thick and did not use a french-file shape. Vandoren
> V12 reeds were designed to be similar to these reeds.
Pilgerstorfer still makes a reed it calls "Morré" although, as far as I've ever read, it's not very much like the ones Robert Marcellus discovered and played. I had just never before heard reeds classified as "Morré-style". Thanks for the clarification.
One difference between the modern Morré reeds (I've never seen a Marcellus era Morré) and V.12 is that while Morrés are "regular" cut (rounded), V.12s are file-cut ("French") like the original Traditional (Blue-box) Vandorens. The thick-blank Vandoren that is "regular cut" is the 56 Rue le pic, which I think came out even later than the V.12 line.
Karl
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