Klarinet Archive - Posting 000205.txt from 2000/12

From: Mark.Davies@-----.org
Subj: RE: [kl] Legere Reeds
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 13:52:08 -0500

Hi Everyone,

This is the first time that l have actually written in but have been
'reading in' for quite some time now.

l am a recent graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester,
England and l'm ashamed to say that l have never heard of the Legere reed
which everyone seems to be talking about at the moment - please could
someone tell me exactly what it is!!

Cheers

Mark Davies

-----Original Message-----
From: Buckman, Nancy [mailto:nebuckman@-----.us]
Subject: RE: [kl] Legere Reeds

I have a new 4th grade student who's family doesn't have the money to spend
on boxes of reeds, so I gave her a Legere to use. I got a very succinct
note from her band director, that she was not to use this reed in his class
- that he wanted cane reeds only. I had this child's mother write back to
him that she would have a discussion with the school principal, if he
insisted that she refrain from using the new reed, that if the Legere was
good enough for Larry Combs that it better be considered to be good enough
for her child. This mother got a note back asking who Larry Combs was.
The band director was also complaining that the strength 2.5 reed was too
hard for a new player to be using. This kid sounds like dynamite. She is
using on one of my Evette and Schaeffer Master Models and has been playing
since the beginning of September and is a little more than half way through
the first Rubank book. I just penned a note to this man informing him that
we can always withdraw this student from his program. It will be
interesting to see what his response is.

Nancy

Nancy E. Buckman, Technical Assistant
School of Health Professions, Wellness and Physical Education
Anne Arundel Community College
Arnold, Maryland 21012 USA
nebuckman@-----.us

> At 02:19 AM 12/1/00 EST, you 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!!
> > Denise, 17
> >Miami- Bass/sapreno Clarinet
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