Klarinet Archive - Posting 000252.txt from 1999/03

From: "Carl Schexnayder" <carlsche@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] REEDS OF A DIFFERENT KIND
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 16:39:56 -0500

Where would one order these reeds? I haven't seen them listed anywhere.

Thanks,
Carl Schexnayder
>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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