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Re: Legere Signature reeds

Author: The_Clarinetist
Date: 2012-09-03 18:55

I tested legere signature today in the local music store and was actually positively surprised. Though my best cane reed sounded better and the synthetic reed did produce a scratchy sound when I played forte/fortissimo. However the signature felt consistent in response through all registers.

First I tried a 3 3/4 which felt good except that it was a tad soft. And as I have heard they tend to soften during the first hours of use the 3.75 might be too soft for me, at least the one I tried. But when I tried a number 4 it was too hard. Additionally, when I tried a 4.25 it did not feel that much harder than the 4. So maybe this number 4 was unrepresentative of the average 4. Though it feels stupid charging almost the equivallent of 40 dollars for one single reed when you can not guarantee the strength of it, despite having a quarter scale...

After approaching the salesman and explaining that I might just have had bad luck the few test reeds available he insisted that as the reeds were built atom by atom the quarter strength idication was accurate. Furthermore, when I suggested that the reeds might get a bit softer after initial playing, perhaps making the number 4 suitable to me after all, he said that there was a "theoretical decrease in strength during break in".

Was he correct?

For me it probably boils down to having a synthetic reed as an excellent practicing reed and the best cane reed as concert reed.

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