Klarinet Archive - Posting 000227.txt from 1999/03

From: avrahm galper <agalper@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] REEDS OF A DIFFERENT KIND
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 16:39:31 -0500

REEDS OF A DIFFERENT KIND

Yesterday one of my students came for his lesson. He chose to play
"abime des oiseaux".
He sounded very good. Big improvement, I thought. Tremendous crescendo
on the F sharps.
Then he played the first movement of the Saint-Saens sonata.
Also, a very good sound etc.
My astonishment came at the end of the lesson when I discovered that he
has playing a LEGERE reed that I had lent him a week earlier. I had
forgotten that.
I couldn't believe it.
When I tried his set up, it was very easy. The reed had gotten soft.
It only went to prove what reed fixers know: if the tip vibrates
properly, then the sound is good.
I had mentioned the Legere reeds before. There is definitely something
to look at here.
Maybe one should get slightly harder reeds to begin with.
But they certainly have the quality.

--
Avrahm Galper
TONE TECHNIQUE AND STACCATO
THE UPBEAT BAERMANN MELODIC SCALES AND ARPEGGIOS
http://www.sneezy.org/avrahm_galper/index.html

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