Klarinet Archive - Posting 000244.txt from 2000/12

From: "Franklin Kercher" <kranwli@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Legere Reeds
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 00:49:14 -0500

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From: Buckman, Nancy <nebuckman@-----.us>
Date: Monday, December 04, 2000 10:02 AM
Subject: RE: [kl] Legere Reeds

Is this band director a drummer? A few years ago, my next door nieghbors
daughter started band and her Dad, a musician himself, wanted to buy her an
intermediate or pro grade horn. The director had a fit and said no, she must
use a student model. After a very heated arguement he pulled her from band.
Both lost.

>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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