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Re: Reed problems

Author: Iceland clarinet
Date: 2009-11-27 23:07

How has the humidity level been ? That has an great affect. I mean I always have a bad reed day when the temperature gose below 0°C(frozt) for the first in the autumn and I have to heating up the ovens in my room.

And btw I did try 5 V-12s two weeks ago after over 3 years of not playing them and never in the flow pack and I must say that I was shocked by the quality and the consistency is great. They have hardly changed a bit over those 2 weeks and they all play fairly evenly although one is a little bit softer than the other but that's not much problem for me.

All I can say is that comparing them to 5 Rico Reserve I have to say that Vandoren is much more consistent.

1 day the Rico were all too soft. Next day 3 of them were very fluffy. Day 3 and 4 were the same then on day 5 two of the most fluffy ones were dying on me but week later they were both fluffy like crazy again. The Vandoren have been almost the same all the 2 weeks apart from getting a little softer after being broken-in like most reeds do.

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