interesting day today

[sxpoet]

https://vkreeds.com/en/

[sxpoet]

seven years research to produce a synthetic reed by vandoren

[saxomonica]

Sounds interesting!

VK Link says

‘Due to limited availability VK products are currently available only in the USA‘

‘The VK reed is currently only available for Clarinet‘.

Thangs may have changed, the only constant is change! Looks like you may have to give ’em a swing on your clarinet, James? Cheers Mark

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https://www.ozwinds.com.au/vandoren-vk1-synthetic-clarinet-reed.html?gclid=CjwKCAiA44OtBhAOEiwAj4gpOdM8Al2QeWZik0VrhEqx3uUb_iFEEwLEqJbkygaCSOCYADTLcJc5ARoCKPcQAvD_BwE

[sxpoet]

the guy who runs the shop, was telling me they often get new sample reeds to try out and thats how i got my free reeds. I think he said a few other shops had received a couple of vandoren reeds to try out, once they up their production, they should start supplying here. Thats a big step for vandoren as they were committed to only produce cane reeds.
I can see them bringing out sax synthetic reeds next, probably still testing them out?

[sxpoet]

i shall have one more attempt at trying out the Tenor sax YTS480 or YTS62.
I play ‘Fly me to the Moon’ in C Major on the Alto sax, i’m used to hearing it in played in C Major.

when i tried out two Tenor Sax’s, i played ‘Fly me to the Moon’ using the same Key positions as on the Alto C Major. When i got home, i realised that i should have played ‘Fly me to the moon’ in F Major.

So i’m going to go back and try out the Tenors in F Major. I kept wondering in the sax shop why it sounded so different. DOH

[Leo Salu]

SXPOET I recently got a YTS62, and I love it. Funny what was a little tricky getting used to was how easy it was to get a note (lower or higher) than my YTS23 I found I was blowing a lot harder than needed and the keys were so much quicker, but after a few hours playing it just got easier and easier. Highly recommend the 62. BTW I use a Otttolink number five with a variety of Fiberreeds, got to love those Fiberreeds, they go on forever. Johnny sells them on his site. (Favorite is the hemp)

[sxpoet]

thanks for the info Leo!

Next time i visit my local sax shop, i’ll definitely try out the yts62. I haven’t played Tenor sax’s so i don’t know how well they work with fibre reeds, but i do know on my Alto i couldn’t find any fibre that worked well across all the notes, mid range notes were okay, higher range notes were rubbish and lower notes weren’t as good.

my daughter used to play my clarinet with a fibre reed and you couldn’t tell the difference, that’s probably why Vandoren have only just produced fibres reeds for the clarinet. They haven’t brought out a sax fibre reed yet, probably still testing them out.

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