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Re: Breaking in Bass Clarinet Reeds

Author: bob49t
Date: 2003-03-27 06:09

I agree with RS. If your major playing is on soprano clarinet, at least consider the synthetic reed for bass, as you will want a consistent reed for occasional bass work. My experience is with Legere who do a "suck it and see" return and change scheme. Actually I do play a fair bit of bass and the same reed has done now for many months without showing signs of change. Synthetic reeds are not for everyone, but faced with a bass gig and selecting a decent cane reed from a box, I'd now go down the synthetic road (not for soprano where my newfound Gonzalez FOF's are wonderfully consistent). Other advantages of synthetic reeds are :-

economy, time saving on searching, no "fall off", easy to keep hygienic etc etc

For more advice and opinions check the BB strings and Yahoo bass clarinet board where this has been discussed thoroughly.