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Selmer reeds for Soprano Sax on Clarinet

Author: Hugues Fardao
Date: 2021-06-27 21:42

I tried the Selmer reeds. Tested several Clarinet reeds before, and never found better than my Légère European. Since I play sax reeds on Alto Clarinet and since the European Cut is based on a Soprano Sax reed, I tested the Selmer Sop Sax reeds (also thinking Selmer tested reeeds on their instruments and I play Selmer Mpc. and Clarinet... OK not a Sax, but, well...).

It works, it's the of sound I was looking for, it's very comfortable, 5 on 6 reeds are OK to play out of the box (2 boxes for soprano and 1 box for alto tested, 5 are good). I was on a 2.5 with Légère but switched on a 2 with Selmer wich is harder.
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It's the very first time I'm happy with a natural reed, in five years or so of playing. I'm very, very surprised by these reeds.

Sound / private links for you (B flat Selmer L series) :

Selmer sax -> https://soundcloud.com/user-580682533/nouvel-enregistrement-118/s-igOHULhVUc8

Légère European -> https://soundcloud.com/user-580682533/nouvel-enregistrement-111/s-u5e7gceHnzJ

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Post Edited (2021-06-29 23:57)

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Re: Selmer reeds for Soprano Sax on Clarinet

Author: ACCA
Date: 2021-07-02 14:03

Nice sound.
A co-incidence- I just tried Hemke sop. reeds on a vintage C clarinet (Selmer C85-115 mouthpiece). Response, projection, resistance, control and dynamic range/ expression all significantly improved from other setups I've used with it. Tone is brighter (not a bad thing as it tends to get stuffy and lack projection in a big venue) and tuning is no worse than any other setup. This might be my goto setup on this one for now.

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Re: Selmer reeds for Soprano Sax on Clarinet

Author: graham
Date: 2021-07-02 17:12

I didn’t find the Selmer SS reeds all that good on clarinet, but the Marca American Vintage work very well for me and I do almost all my playing on them. There is a clarinet version of the Marca but the ss is fine so I haven’t experimented with that one yet.

graham

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Re: Selmer reeds for Soprano Sax on Clarinet

Author: Chris P
Date: 2021-07-02 17:20

Selmer reeds from the '80s from what I could see were just Vandorens with the Selmer logo silk screened onto them.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.

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