Klarinet Archive - Posting 000403.txt from 2002/12

From: Mark Charette <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] FW: [kl] Switching to Legeres
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 14:56:10 -0500

On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Daniluk, Bill wrote:

>
>
> > If discipline yourself to NOT play a cane reed for several
> > weeks, you can make the adjustment.
>
> No professional or student can take that risk for such a long time, but
> ...
>
> What risk?

The risk of not sounding as good as you should for a several weeks, along
with the fact that even after that time you may not be creating the sound
that you like. The people paying you expect perfection or nearly so every
day, and teachers at the conservatory level have high demands of their
student's sound. That's the reason that people have more than one reed;
the Legere is not the tonally perfect reed every day of the week. A
selection of reeds may get you closer, and the one thing that Legeres
_don't_ have is variability. That's their good and bad point.

Mark C.

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