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Arundo Donax

Advantages: Cheap
Disadvantages: Don't produce the Best tone in the World

I began playing the clarinet when I was 11 years old, after several months of pestering my mum and dad. Although I wasn't particularly good when I started, I loved the look and feel of the instrument and I persevered, and I finally ended up as a music stu ...

Tricksty 14.09.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Rico Clarinet Reeds

Cheap Reeds For Clarinet, But Poor Quality

Advantages: cheap
Disadvantages: low quality, split easily

Rico clarinet reeds were the first ones I was introduced to when I started to play clarinet. These a re natural reeds and tend to vary in quality. I started with a very soft one (they range form 1 to 5) and progressed through to a three. I have never got ...

jan007 07.06.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Rico Clarinet Reeds

misunderstood

Advantages: extremely playable and very cheap
Disadvantages: horribly underrated

all the quality (ok, most of the quality) of van doren's and only half as expensive. they may not be the best reed out there, but they're still a very good quality product. Plus, while they're playability and durability are high, the price is low. you ...

bolte 29.01.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Rico Clarinet Reeds

Rico Reeds for Clarinet- For the beginner

Advantages: Good for beginners
Disadvantages: Not beneficial to more advanced players

I am a clarinet player in a local youth marching band and these are the reeds that I started out on. I am now upto Grade 8 level and realised a few years ago that my tone had reached the highest level it was going to reach with these reeds. For a begi ...

jessrox2 05.08.2011 · Read full review
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Review of Rico Clarinet Reeds

Vandoren for Optimum Tone Quality

Advantages: Exceptional tone quality.
Disadvantages: Can be hard to blow initially.

I have been using Vandoren reeds for the past seven years, since I changed clarinet teachers. My first teacher had started me on Rico reeds, and having no experience of clarinet playing did not know that better reeds were available. Since using Vandor ...

tomt89 20.05.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Van Doren Clarinet Reeds