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Re: Buffet Factory Buying

Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2007-01-12 15:08

It used to happen. When I was in the West Point Band (1965-68), several players got free lifts over to Paris on military planes and picked out R-13s for $100, without a case. They left them out for several days to dull the shine, brought them back in paper bags and avoided the duty.

My parents visited the Vandoren factory in the late 1950s to get me several boxes of reeds. They said that a young American player was there, and an employee brought him out a tray of several hundred reeds to pick over. Thus, Vandoren does NOT have a guy who puts one good reed in each box. Instead, all but one of the good ones are removed.

Ken Shaw

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