Klarinet Archive - Posting 000562.txt from 1997/02

From: "David C. Blumberg" <reedman@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: ATTENTION BASS CLARINETISTS!!!!
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 16:46:41 -0500

I strongly endorse the Hemke reeds too. All of my sax students use them.
Now some have just started to use the Rico Select Jazz Filed reeds, and
they are good competition to the Java.

At 01:01 PM 2/16/97 -0600, Janis A. Brown wrote:
>I like the Riffeault mouthpieces on bass clarinet and I use Hemke Tenor sax
>reeds strength 3 1/2 or harder. That combination gives me a good sound,
>one that carries, and the Hemke reeds increase my range in the altissimo
>register all the way up to c'''.
>JAB
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David C. Blumberg
reedman@-----.com
Principal Clarinet Riverside Symphonia
Adjunct Woodwind Instructor Univ. of Penn,. Bryn Mawr College
Foundation of Arts and Musical Excellence Summer Music Festival (FAME)