Klarinet Archive - Posting 000180.txt from 2002/08

From: Kelly White <K.J.White-3@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Ligatures for Legere reeds
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 13:25:13 -0400

Clark,

What about the Legere reeds do you find superior to cane reeds?

Having played on plastic reeds just a handle of times myself, I am not sure what
I think about them yet.
- Kelly

Quoting CLARK FOBES <reedman@-----.com>:

> I was glad to see a posting about Legere reeds. I have been using them
> to
> make my mouthpieces for about 2 years and now I am using for my
> professional playing - most recently in perfrormances with the San
> Francisco Symphony. I am finding them to be superiror in many ays to
> cane
> reeds.
>
> I have played the Rovner ligatures for most of my career, but I am
> finding
> that the Legere reeds need a ligature that provides more focus. In
> particular the thoat tones seem to be a bit unfocused with the
> Rovner/Legere combination. Recently I acuired a new Harrison Ligature
> as
> produced by Rico. It works very well.
>
> My current setup on clarinet is:
>
> Fobes/Zinner CF+ mouthpiece
> Legere #4 1/4
> Harrison ligature (silver plated)
>
>
> Clark W Fobes
>
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