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 Re: Old Purple Box Vandoren Reeds
Author: Philip Caron 
Date:   2014-05-07 21:58

Before I stopped playing in 1974, I'd purchased quite a few of these purple-box Vandoren reeds, strength 5. I started playing again on those remaining reeds in 2007. A year or two later, I also tried a few modern Vandoren reeds for comparison. It seemed to me that the modern reeds were stiffer.

Based on my comparisons, I think purple-box strength 5 corresponds to between strength 3 and 4 in the modern reeds. Modern 5's were noticeably stiffer, I couldn't really use them, and modern 4's also seemed a bit too stiff for me.

Note that my sample size was small, only a few reeds each of different sizes of modern Vandorens. I have no idea if the decades of aging changed the strength of the purple-box reeds.
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