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Author: growlingbunny910
Date: 2005-05-21 01:46
Is it sacreligious to use the new type of fibercell artificial reeds. I started on natural reeds but found the fake reeds are more consistent and no breaking in time required. Any thoughts from the pros on here?
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Author: BobD
Date: 2005-05-21 14:33
Use whatever works for you. You can even take "natural" reeds and coat them with artists' type water base acrylic varnish if you want to.
Bob Draznik
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Author: William
Date: 2005-05-21 17:56
Legere reeds are arguably the best artificial reeds on the current market.
However, for my soprano clarinets, I still prefer cane--for, that means VanDoran V12s.
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Author: GBK
Date: 2005-05-21 18:20
I now use Legere Studio Cut reeds for tenor saxophone and am very pleased. They project well and at the end of a 4 hour gig they are still going strong. I recently did a number of perfomances of "Grease" (yeah...I know) and it was nice not to have to worry about finding a perfect reed each night. The consistancy from reed to reed is superb.
However, I found that the smaller Legere reeds (clarinet, alto sax) did not have the same projection or core quality to the sound as the comparable cane (Gonzalez) reeds.
I do keep a few Legere reeds in my clarinet and alto sax cases for emergencies, but have not had to use them...GBK
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