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Author: Jenab
Date: 2007-04-23 02:07
I play my Eb clarinet in the hills of West Virginia. No concert hall for me. But the echoes come back from the hillsides and gives me lots of natural reverb, especially as heard by someone standing about 50 feet away.
My favorite Eb soprano clarinet mouthpiece is a Vandoren B44. But I don't like the Vandoren reeds. They seem too narrow. Just plain Rico reeds, the cheap kind, work best. Maybe I just grew up with them and "know" them better.
If you're in the hills just north of Hillsboro and hear a clarinet, it's me, and those are Rico reeds.
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Author: beavertoof
Date: 2007-04-24 15:39
yeah, I have a fondness for those too.
It seems that they cost about the same in the long run, as out of a box of them, there are not as many good players, but the ones that are good, seem just as good to me as the higher quality reeds.
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Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2007-04-24 16:09
I've also found that the quality of cane and consistency of cut of the cheapo Ricos has improved tremendously in the last decade or so. I recently acquired a bunch of Rico #5 soprano clarinet reeds as sort of an incidental 'bonus' with the purchase of other reeds, and was expecting them to be throwaways. But by clipping a couple of millimeters off the tip and "French-filing" the back end of the vamps, they've turned out to be surprisingly playable and seem to last as long as the other brands I use.
A far cry from the old 'brown-box" Ricos with cane about the density of styrofoam, that looked like they were cut in a high-school shop class.
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