Klarinet Archive - Posting 000107.txt from 2001/05

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] RE: circular Breathing
Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 06:49:25 -0400

At 08:32 PM 5/2/2001 -0400, WaveMaster516 wrote:
>Hi. Everyone in my high school band plays on Vandorens excpet me and one
>other guy who I got hooked on Mitchell Lurie ever since I gave him a 3.5 (he
>hated the 4.5). They do seem easy to play on by comparison. But everyone
>disses Mitchell Lurie. Are they just defending their reed or is there
>something bad about them I don't know?

Snobbishness, mostly. These are the "I don't play (ugh) RICO reeds!"
crowd. Use what works for you. The audience can't see what it says on the
back of your reed, they can only hear what you do with it. If that is
satisfactory, to heck with what a bunch of cliquish high schoolers think!

>And what the skinny on the plastic reeds? I'm never
>gonna get one unless i am feeling experimental but are they any good?

The Legere reeds seem to be quite nice for synthetics. And plastic reeds
are very useful for some situations, particularly marching band and pit or
jazz band doubling situations, where a cane reed will tend to dry out
between uses of an instrument.

Bill Hausmann bhausmann1@-----.com
451 Old Orchard Drive http://homepages.go.com/~zoot14/zoot14.html
Essexville, MI 48732 ICQ UIN 4862265

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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