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 Re: Old Purple Box Vandoren Reeds
Author: Jarmo Hyvakko 
Date:   2021-02-06 11:34

The strengths were 2 1/2 - 3 etc. Later they changed it so that 2 1/2 - 3 became 3 etc. And eventually they started to sell the reeds is half numbers. I visited the vandoren shop late 1990's or early 2000's. They didn't let you to try the reeds anymore, but you could buy the reeds in 1/10th strengths. There was a machine on the encounter: you put the reed on it and two pins came up bending the tip of the reed upwards. Then a display showed a number: f.ex. 2.9. When you bought the reeds you asked for your favourite strength: 10 reeds of 3.7's please! (Of course in french, the lady behind the encounter didn't speak a word english, although she seemed very pleased, when you tried to speak berlitz-french, when you actually couldn't speak french) Then she would take a cardboard box from a shelf 3.7 written on, take the reeds one by one and measure them with the device and pack them in a box for you.

Later i chatted with a pr-officer in the shop, and even he didn't believe in selling the reeds in 1/10th of strengths. "After wetting them the strengths of them will anyway change so much in one direction or another..."

Jarmo Hyvakko, Principal Clarinet, Tampere Philharmonic, Finland
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