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Vandoren USA, the best in Reeds and Mouthpieces |
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| Location: | CHICAGO, Illinois |
| Country: |  United States |
| Last Login: | Jun 20, 2008 (557 days back) |
About Me |
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| Since 1905, the Van Doren family has been making reeds and mouthpieces. It all began with Eugene Van Doren, who was a clarinetist at the Paris Opera during the Belle Epoque at the end of the 19th century. It was a time when wind players made their own reeds, with greater or lesser degrees of success. Eugene Van Doren must have had the knack: his reeds sounded so good that his colleagues prevailed upon him to sell some of them.Making reeds by hand is a long and tedious business. In order to save time, Eugene, a skillful and gifted engineer, designed and built a special reed-making machine, treadle-operated in the same way as a sewing machine. The reeds he made with this machine in the dining room of his home in the rue Andre del Sarte were immediately successful, and in 1905 (the year his son was born) he founded a reedmaking business at 51 rue Lepic, which soon took up more of his time than playing clarinet.His son Robert also studied clarinet, graduating from the Paris Conservatoire. He considered a performing career, and in 1928 left France for a year-long tour of the United States during which he drew attention for the beauty of his tone. He was one of the first French clarinetists to perform as a soloist at Radio City Music Hall in New York. It was during this tour that American musicians first discovered Vandoren reeds, and since then their popularity in the United States has skyrocketed.As the company grew, Robert Van Doren, like his father, found himself devoting more time to making reeds than to his performing career. He soon took over management of the company and in 1935 bought a vacant lot at 56 rue Lepic, Vandoren's present address. It was about this time than Robert Van Doren started selling a mouthpiece he has developed, the famous 5RV still so popular with professional musicians today.In 1967, Robert's son Bernard, blessed with his grandfather's mechanical genius, joined the company, bringing a third generation into the family business. A range of mouthpieces was developed under his guidance, the basic model being the B45, which soon became as familiar as the 5RV. Applying the same manufacturing principles as his father and grandfather, Bernard Van Doren developed highly sophisticated machines which have made it possible to reduce manufacturing tolerances to less than one hundredth of a millimeter while allowing output to increase tenfold.For several years now, all of Vandoren's manufacturing facilities have been maintained in supervised hygrometric conditions. This revolutionary advance, combined with refined grading techniques, allows continued improvement in selection by strength and optimization of product quality. In order to preserve this quality, Vandoren developed factory fresh Flow Pack packaging that maintains reeds as fresh as if just picked from the factory.Vandoren's products are used by a majority of professionals and amateurs around the world, and distributed in more than 100 countries. People like Kirk Whalum, Jeff Coffin, Eddie Daniels, David Sanborn, Warren Hill, Mike Phillips, Rudresh Mahanthappa and Mark Gross play Vandoren.By the way...check our our friends...everybody's playing Vandoren.Thanks for checkin' us out. | |
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Music:Member Since: 8/7/2006Band Website: vandojazzusa.com Band Members: All reeds are now available in new Flow Pack packaging -an innovation from the company who cares about performance. The Vandoren factory fresh Flow Pack packaging will allow the reeds to be as fresh as if just picked from the factory The world's most popular clarinet mouthpieces. You'll sound better...really! Jazz mouthpieces to make your sound bigger and badder than anyone else. Just ask Mike Phillips, Jeff Coffin, Kirk Whalum or Mark Gross. They're friends on our space! Influences: We are influenced by artists who prefer our products over anything else.Like Antonio Hart - as you can see from this VandoJam that took place in Anaheim, CA. Type of Label: None |
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My Background and Lifestyle |
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| Occupation: | Music Artist (Classical / Jazz / Other) |
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The Environment and Vandoren |
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| The Environment: Vandoren's Efforts to Help Keep the Earth Green
We at Vandoren have received many questions recently concerning ecology and the new packaging. We are very serious about preserving o... Posted by VandorenUSA on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:43:00 PST |
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VandoJams on YouTube |
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| Can't make it to a VandoJam? No need to worry - you can now check them out on YouTube:http://www.youtube.com/VandoJamThe most recent additions are from the 2008 NAMM Show Vandojam in Anaheim, Californ... Posted by VandorenUSA on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 01:08:00 PST |
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Jazz Reeds and Flow Packs High Performance Stuff |
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| If you haven't tried Vandoren Jazz reeds like Java, V16 or ZZ, you haven't experienced high performance. And now alto sax reeds are available in high performance Flow Pack packaging. Flow Packs are i... Posted by VandorenUSA on Fri, 08 Sep 2006 08:03:00 PST |
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New From Vandoren! |
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| If you're playing Jazz, you have to check out our new web site at www.vandojazzusa.com. It's everything you need to improve your playing and get the gig. It's free to become a member of VandoJazz. Che... Posted by VandorenUSA on Fri, 08 Sep 2006 07:42:00 PST |
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Saxophonist Mike Phillips Heads BMW PopJazz Tour |
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| Vandoren artist Mike Phillips, a really great saxophonist is the headliner for this year's BMW PopJazz tour. If you haven't heard Mike play, you should really check him out. He's really great! For mor... Posted by VandorenUSA on Wed, 09 Aug 2006 03:12:00 PST |
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My Friends |
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Kirk Whalum, Jeff Coffin Mu'tet, Bobby Watson, Bob Mintzer, Paquito D Rivera, The Mark Gross Project, ANTONIO HART, Marcus Strickland Twi-Life Group, Javon Jackson, Ron Kearns Quintet, Dan Moretti, Michael Lington, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Michael Holmes, Sylvain Carton, Don Aliquo, Mike Philly, eric marienthal tribute page, Caleb, RALPH BOWEN, Bill Evans, Tia, Michael Ghegan, David Sills, Pascual Martinez Forteza, Benny Reid, Jacques Schwarz-Bart, Walter Smith III, Andy Blanco, Jim Metz, Julianne, Eric Darius, Patricio Beltran - Saxophones, Attilio Troiano, pacosax, Tom Timko, DANIEL SAX, Anatoliy Vyacheslavov, Petar Taneski, brooke, Paolo Recchia, El Centro, Ca-Wilson Band, Carl-Emmanuel Fisbach, Morgan Price, Celia Baron, Franco Pirrello, Tim Varlack, Levan Tskhadadze, Damian/Dashiki/Violet/Macadamian, Antonello Seu, Gary Harris, Randy Hunter Jazz, Charlie, SMILEY, Michael Caudill, Dano, rob scavetto, Rocco Ventrella, Caterine Naget, Saxophoniste, John Tank, Jawor, Frank Fontaine, Raemon Kang, Patrick Trahan, Marco Nalesso, Steve Mohacey, Michael Murphy, Revolutionary Snake Ensemble, Anthony Johnson, Flow, Mr.Murphy aka JMurph, KARZAPP’ 4T
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