Band
Woodwinds
Reeds: Rico Royal (Blue Box) or Vandoren
Marching Band Season Reeds: Legere (plastic reeds) or Rico Plasticover (plastic-dipped reeds)
NOTE: Suggested marching band season reeds do NOT need to be soaked!
If you are switching reeds, here is a comparison guide for relative strengths provided by Legere.
Brass
Mouthpieces:
Trumpet:
French Horn:
Trombone/Euphonium: Beginner – Bach/Faxx 12C or 6 1/2AL; Intermediate – Bach/Faxx 5G
Tuba:
Percussion
Concert Snare Drum Sticks: Vic Firth SD1, Promark Concert Two
General Purpose Keyboard Mallets:
Marching Snare Drum Sticks: Promark DC-50
Marching Tenor Sticks:
Orchestra
Violin Strings: Thomastik Dominant or Thomastik Alphayue
Viola, Cello, and Bass Strings: D’Addario Helicore or Thomastik Spirocore
Violin, Viola, Cello Rosins: Jade L’Opera, Pirastro Goldflex, Original Bernadel
Bass Rosin: Pops Bass Rosin
