Klarinet Archive - Posting 000036.txt from 2000/12

From: "Tim Roberts" <timr@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Legere Reeds
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 14:05:11 -0500

On Fri, 1 Dec 2000 02:19:04 EST, HuMpReSs1545@-----.com wrote:
>
> I live in Miami and, yes it's very humid and I do go throw alot of boxes
>of reeds... but I would never change to a Plastic reed, It's a WOODwind
>instrument not a PLASTICwind...lol My director would kill me if he even knew
>I even bought one... A cane reed gives the clarinet the warm tone that it's
>made to produce and that we all enjoy a plastic reed is no substitute!!

Hmmm. You're going to get a flood of mail over that one.

As principal clarinet in our community band, I play a plastic Vito clarinet, a
plastic barrel, a hard rubber Portnoy mouthpiece, a metal ligature, and a
plastic Legere reed. My instrument has exactly the same level of wood content
as that other woodwind, the flute.

If your director will not permit you to even try a plastic reed, then he is a
dinosaur, and he is not helping you further your musical education. You should
try everything you possibly can, and use what works best FOR YOU. If cane
works better FOR YOU, then more power to you. The Legere's work better FOR ME.
They are absolutely consistent from week to week, and I get enough compliments
on my tone to convince me to stick with them.

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- Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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