Vandoren VK7 Synthetic Tenor Sax Reed Professional Q Series Bass Clarinet Neck

Q Series Bass Clarinet Neck — silver plated

It's the flip side of how open it blows — the same freedom that hands you a wide color palette is what lets the pitch move

Instead of the skinny vertical touchpiece common on just about every clarinet ever made

the price of these instruments jumped by about $500

You just need to know what kind of upgrade you’re after

Vandoren VK7 Synthetic Tenor Sax Reed Professional Q Series Bass Clarinet NeckThe VK1 was Vandoren's synthetic for the classical crowd. The VK7 is the same seven years in development composite, rbut ecut for jazz a brighter, more flexible design built for more projection & flexibility. If you play sax, the pitch is simple: a jazz reed that's identical out of the package every time, needs no soaking, shrugs off humidity, and can be washed (or disinfected, if you're a doubler sharing horns). For outdoor gigs and pit work, that