Klarinet Archive - Posting 000481.txt from 2000/07

From: "Ed & Carol Maurey" <edsshop@-----.ca>
Subj: Re: [kl] Reeds (Legere)
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 19:21:55 -0400

Don't tell The Pynes that their "M" is asymetrical. It's not suposed to be!
Mine sure isn't.

Ed Maurey
----- Original Message -----
From: <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subject: Re: [kl] Reeds (Legere)

> At 08:30 AM 07/13/2000 -0600, you wrote:
> >| Don't mess around with knives. Why chance messing up Legere's
magnificent
> >| job of machining. These reeds are really BALANCED. If they seem out
of
> >| balance your mouthpiece is probably to blame.
>
> I don't know if this is accurate or not. I have three Legere reeds - all
> are supposedly the same strength, yet they all play remarkably
differently.
> I don't think it is the mouthpiece. BTW, I use a Legere to test my
> mouthpieces as a last test - to be sure it blows the way it is supposed
to.
>
> >I wonder if what causes Legere reeds to fall just short of the very
> >best cane reeds is that the material is so consistent in density.
>
> Lots of disagreement on if this is true or not. I personally prefer a
> great cane reed to the Legere, but I always keep a Legere in my reed case
> for the moment that my cane reeds wig out in rehearsal! They're also very
> good for doubling or for warming up in the morning when my cane reeds are
> still soaking.
>
> >Maybe the minor variations in density from point to point within
> >a cane reed are important for getting the harmonics that you want.
> >Along these lines, I wonder what a mouthpiece with an asymmetrical
> >facing would do for a Legere reed.
>
> I play on a Pyne "M" mouthpiece (an asymetrical facing) and haven't
> noticed any dissimilarities in the way the reed plays between it and the
> symetrical facing of the mouthpieces I make. I don't know if others have
> had this experience or not.
>
>
>
> Roger Garrett
> Professor of Clarinet
> Director, Symphonic Winds
> Advisor, IWU Recording Services
> Illinois Wesleyan University
> School of Music
> Bloomington, IL 61702-2900
> (309) 556-3268
>
> A Clarinetist's Revenge is sometimes personified by the following excerpt
> from the London Daily News, circa 1926:
>
> "The saxophone is a long metal instrument bent at both ends. It is
alleged
> to be musical. As regards markings, the creature has a series of tiny
taps
> stuck upon it, apparently at random. These taps are very sensitive: when
> touched they cause the instrument to utter miserable sounds suggesting
> untold agony. Sometimes it bursts into tears. At either end there is a
> hole. People, sometimes for no reason at all, blow down the small end of
> the saxophone which then shrieks and moans."
>
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