Last week I was in Paris and visited Vandoren Paris on Rue Lepic 56, Montmartre, now main office, and back in the day clarinet and mouthpiece factory. Last time I visited was 5 years ago and Jean-Paul Gauvin was still working here, he retired 1,5 years ago. A few weeks ago I tested the new Vandoren mouthpiece V16 S+ and fell in love with it. Time to test some reeds. How would the red or green Java and V16 respond to it? After testing it, I came back to "my" ZZ jazz 3 reeds. For me, these reeds in combination of either this new mouthpiece or my old V16 A6 M are the best. After testing, we had some delicious lunch with one of the Vandoren experts, Pablo Trejo! Thanks Vandoren for endorsing me. Coming up: A new VandoJam (jazz session, sponsored by Vandoren)in Amsterdam. Stay tuned! Here's a video from last VandoJam at NeL.
Read the latest newsletterAnd if you want:Sign up for the newsletter - Last week I was in Paris and visited Vandoren Paris on Rue Lepic 56, Montmartre, now main office, and back in the day clarinet and mouthpiece factory. Last time I visited was 5 years ago and Jean-Paul Gauvin was still working here, he retired 1,5 years ago. A few weeks ago I tested the new Vandoren mouthpiece V16 S+ and fell in love with it. Time to test some reeds. How would the red or green Java and V16 respond to it? After testing it, I came back to my ZZ jazz 3 reeds. For me, these reeds in combination of either this new mouthpiece or my old V16 A6 M are the best.After testing, we had some delicious lunch with one of the Vandoren experts, Pablo Trejo! Thanks Vandoren for endorsing me. Coming up: A new VandoJam (jazz session, sponsored by Vandoren)in Amsterdam. Stay tuned!Here's a video from last VandoJam at NeL.
