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Re: Legere Signature reeds

Author: Donald Casadonte
Date: 2012-09-08 15:38

"Clarinetfest 1998 was when they were launched- and there were 6 different gradings between each half strength (plus a variety of profiles if i remember correctly)"

I gave the talk on reed science at the 1998 Clarinetfest just before Dr. Legere. Synthetic reed science was certainly possible at the time. I looked at 2000 compounds for my dissertation, but I was primarily interested in the biological reed and I had no interest in making my own reed brand. Legere found a formulation, possibly using microfiber technology, that mimics the biopolymer fairly well. I was on a panel at a joint Acoustical Society of America/Material Research Society conference session that discussed new materials for musical instruments a few years before. If most musicians were wealthy, you have no idea how much new stuff there would be available. I and most musical acousticians can hardly even get funding to do fundamental research.

In any case, it would be interesting to compare natural and synthetic reeds in a systematic way. Alas, that science probably won't be done for twenty years, since it is hard to find people to do the work.

Donald Casadonte

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