I suspect you are referring to single reeds (clarinet and sax) and double reeds (oboe and bassoon).
There may be a couple of reasons. The reeds may be either too thin or too thick for you to play with. Or, it's common to find "bad reeds" in a new box of reeds, yes I know, it doesn't make a lot of sense. Even when the box of reeds is the same thickness there are little variations in the cut that can make one reed play better than another. It's customary for clarinet players to either throw away some of the "new reeds", fix them or simply use them only to study.
Clarinet reeds come from cane.
At flavorreeds.com -- They have an assortment.
Brass instruments do not have reeds, some woodwind instruments do.
165, if you run boyesen reeds its 160-162
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