Klarinet Archive - Posting 000158.txt from 2000/12

From: rgarrett@-----.edu
Subj: Re: [kl] Legere reeds(Problems?)
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 13:51:21 -0500

At 01:44 PM 12/3/00 -0500, you wrote:
>I estimate that I got maybe 12 services out of each Legere reed. Thats
>about 2
>hours of solid playing each rehearsal or concert. Despite what the
>advertising
>says each reed would feel softer by the end of each performance. After I let
>it sit for a day it would feel like it had returned to its original state. I
>continued to use one of the Legere's after the Nutcracker run but neither reed
>was the same after that (maybe they, too, were overcome by so much
>Tschaikovsky!). Each reed definately has its own personality and I was lucky
>to buy two that played well for me right off the bat.

Marta's experience tends to describe exactly what happened with me when I
used Legere' reeds.

My best of three was swiped from my office last semester. I made a
mouthpiece for the father of a student in one of the local public schools,
and I used the Legere' to try it out. He was very curious about it so I
told him about them. I left to get some water for my cane reeds - and set
the Legere' down on a table filled with several Legere' reeds and other
stuff, and didn't notice when I came back that it was missing. I only
discovered it the next day when I looked for it.

Oh well. Next time I'm somewhere that I can try several of them out, I'll
buy a few more. I like having them around in case of an emergency too.

Sincerely,
Roger Garrett

Roger Garrett
Assistant Professor of Clarinet
Director, Symphonic Winds
Head, Recording Studio
Illinois Wesleyan University
School of Music
Bloomington, IL 61702-2900
(309) 556-3268

"A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes
another's."
Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825)

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