Saxophone Reeds from Rico and Vandoren including the traditional, V16, Java, ZZ, Rico Royal, Rico Jazz Select, Plasticover and Frederick L Hemke Brands

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Saxophone Reeds - Rico

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Strengths: 1-5 softest to hardest, S-H soft to hard (M stands for Medium)

Rico Reeds
High quality reeds designed for a wide variety of playing situations, Rico® Reeds are cut from Rico's most flexible grade of cane.

The ease of play, affordable price and convenient packaging options are why more professional and music educators worldwide find Rico the best value.

Designed for Ease of Play

Unfiled for powerful tone

Priced affordably for educators

Available for full range of clarinets and saxophones
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Rico Royal Reeds
Quality, Consistency and Flexibility
Designed for a wide variety of playing situations, Rico Royal is a high-quality reed for serious saxophone and clarinet players, yet is priced affordably to meet the needs of both professionals and students. French filed for freedom of response, especially in the low register, adding clarity to the tone and making soft attacks easier.

French filed for flexibility and fast response

Available for clarinets and saxophones

Works well for classical and jazz applications

Premium cane for consistent response

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Rico La Voz Reeds
La Voz "The Voice" was the first reed that Rico produced commercially. Hence the grading by words rather than number. Crafted from Premium cane for consistent response and playability, La Voz Clarinet and Saxophone Reeds are the choice of professional saxophone and clarinet players. Unfiled for a deep, powerful tone, La Voz is the reed of choice for many of the world's top jazz musicians. Available for clarinet and saxophone in boxes of ten reeds. 10 reeds per box.

Unfiled reed for powerful tone

Premium cane for consistent response

Available for clarinet and saxophone

Available in strengths soft to hard.

Rico Plasticover Reeds
Rico Plasticover Reeds are designed to resist moisture and climate changes, Plasticover is ideal for use outdoors in ensembles such as marching band, and for doublers who need to make quick changes between instruments. Whether in moist tropics or in desert heat, Plasticover responds instantly. The durable coating also provides a clear, projecting tone, making Plasticover a favourite with jazz, studio and jazz musicians.

Coated with plastic to resist changes in moisture and climate

Coating provides durability and clear tone

Most flexible grade of cane for isntant response

French-filed for fast response

Frederick L Hemke Saxophone Reeds
Frederick L. Hemke reeds provide the dark tone favored by many classical and traditional jazz saxophonists. The design is especially well-suited to traditional, round-chambered mouthpieces. French filed for freedom of response, especially in the low register, adding clarity to the tone and making soft attacks easier. Available in boxes of five.

Professional-quality reed for classical and jazz applications

Shorter vamp for dark tone

Balanced, slightly thinner tip for quick response and articulation

Premium grade cane for consistent response and playability

French filed for flexibility and fast response

FibraCell Reeds
Why does Fibracell sound so good? Because it’s not plastic and it’s not cane. It’s the most highly developed composite structure ever engineered for woodwinds!

The same "woody" tone as cane but with better sound projection.

A reed that is great for doublers because it does not require soaking.

A reed that is playable in all weather conditions, not affected by heat or humidity.

A reed that doesn’t swell, warp or soften when wet.

A reed that lasts up to six times longer than cane with no unplayable reeds, making it less expensive to use than cane.

Quick response for better articulation, excellent pitch stability and intonation in all ranges, even for the clarinet.

Brilliant overtones for a full, vibrant, resonant tone.

A reed with the same weight and stiffness as cane - cane floats and so does Fibracell (try that with a plastic reed!)

A reed that keeps its shape and retains resiliency longer than cane.

Outstanding durability, due to a bonded film on the bottom that helps resist tip splitting.

Rico Jazz Select Saxophone Reeds
The Rico Select Jazz cut features a strong, well-defined heart and longer vamp, yielding unprecedented projection and a clear, fat tone, with unsurpassed flexibility and lightning-fast response. Available with or without a French file.

Huge sound with powerful projection

Premium cane for longevity

Outstanding control and projection

Available in third strengths from 2S to 4H

Offered in both Filed and Unfiled models

Vandoren Traditional Saxophone Reeds
The Vandoren Traditional reed is the most widely played reed in the world with a superiority proven over the years, these reeds suit all styles of music.

The Vandoren Traditional reeds are known for their excellent response in all registers, allowing a pianissimo attack in even the highest notes.

They are also extremely flexible, allowing the legato or staccato execution of large intervals while maintaining a richness of tone that gives body and clarity to the sound, which is a hallmark of Vandoren Reeds.

The reed is designed to produce a quality of extremely pure sound due to a very thin reed tip (the area of reed with maximum vibration), balanced by a solid vertebral column (more cane in the area which climbs gradually to the heel). These reeds are recognisable by a straight line that delineates the limit of the area of bark.

The Traditional Vandoren Reed has a tip thickness of 0.09mm (0.0035") and a heel thickness of 2.8mm (0.110"). This is the thinnest tip with the thickest heart, resulting in crisp articulation with a full, dark sound.

Available in strengths of 1 - 5 and in boxes of 10 (sopranino, soprano and alto) and boxes of 5 (tenor, baritone)

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Vandoren V16 Saxophone Reeds
Launched in 1993 to answer some American jazz musicians (a JAVA with even more wood). The V16 reeds have a medium-thick heart (more than java, but less than traditionals), with a profile designed for producing a strong attack with a deep, rich sound.

Sound: more brilliant, more percussive, particularly well adapted to all the new styles of music..

The V16 has a thicker tip than the traditional Vandoren reeds and a longer pallet.

Available in 1.5 - 5 - boxes of 10 (soprano and alto) boxes of 5 (tenor)

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Vandoren Java Saxophone Reeds
Developed by Vandoren in 1983 for jazz and popular music.

A thicker extremity and a more flexible pallet* than the Traditional reed allow vibration over a larger surface area with maximum elasticity.

This type of vertebral column gives the musician much greater playing flexibility, as the resultant elasticity zone is very large.

The JA stands for Jazz and the VA stands for Variety (entertainment music) and ...Vandoren.

The Vandoren Java reeds are more flexible than Traditionals and V16s and vibrate on a long pallet, creating a bright sound with immediate response.

Available in strengths of 1 - 5 and in boxes of 10 (soprano and alto) boxes of 5 (tenor)

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Vandoren ZZ Saxophone Reeds
In tests with Jazz saxophonists, the artists found the new "ZZ" reed to be immediately responsive without sacrificing the brightness or tone quality required for their style of music.

'ZZ' reeds combine the medium-thick heart (more than Java but less than Traditionals), with a profile designed for producing a strong attack with a deep, rich sound.

The 'ZZ' reed is very free-blowing.

Available in strengths of 1.5 - 4 and in boxes of 10 (soprano and alto) and boxes of 5 (tenor)

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