Klarinet Archive - Posting 000546.txt from 1999/01

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: klarinet Digest 12 Jan 1999 20:41:37 -0000 Issue 918
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 17:48:34 -0500

From: David Figi <dfigi@-----.com>
>I finally (after a LONG wait) got the Legere reed I ordered for my
bass. It
>seems pretty stiff and needs some work. For those of you who've used
them,
>have you tried working on them? What did you use? sandpaper, dutch
rush,
>file? It just doesn't feel like a "real" reed to me. I also feel like
my
>ligature, a Winslow, doesn't hold it securely. What do you use?

Judy, you know if you scrape or otherwise deform it you can't return it.
Normally Guy Legere send 3 different spec'd reeds out, and you return
the one(s) that you don't like.

In any case, my son used a reed knife on his Legere's to good effect.

Cheers,
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