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Author: clarinetBoy
Date: 2001-06-03 09:08
I am a student clarinetist in Australia and due to our extremely bad dollar and other reasons our reeds are extremely expensive. Prices for a V12 box of Vandorens range from $37-52 dollars(Aus).
This is not financially possible for a student and I am wondering about using Legere reeds for practise purposes and cane for concerts, etc...
Does anyone support me in this theory? Or do it themselves?
Yours in clarinetistry
ClarinetBoy
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Author: Bill
Date: 2001-06-03 10:28
I find that the cane and plastic reeds have a different "feel", but I like the Legere reeds. I think it would be okay to practice with the Legere, but switch over to cane about a week before the concert.
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Author: Al
Date: 2001-06-03 16:25
There are more and more symphony musicians that I know personally who use Legere reeds all the time.
We're all stuck with the "plastic reed" stigma. We don't dare concede that mabye some pioneering souls can sound as good on a Legere. That's normal.
Mabye the time is near.
Al
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Author: mw
Date: 2001-06-03 18:58
Legere's sound fine for me, I use a #3 3/4 Legere in place of a #4 Vandoren V12 or #3 1/2 Vandoren Traditional. That said, the plastic feel of the vamp side of the reed (the heel down below) just (*continues) to feel funny to me. I could overcome it I am sure, if I played the Legere more often.
Best,
mw
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Author: Anji
Date: 2001-06-04 01:54
These things are ACES!
One will last about so long as ten natural cane reeds.
Larry Coombs gave a Master class last year playing one, and nobody knew!
Try one, you may find you like it quite well.
I think one of these is about 85-92% as good as my best reed, on any given day.
I would think these are considerably better than the 5-8 lousy reeds that seem to need attention coming out of the box.
They play well out of the box, they never need adjusting, they are VERY close (not exactly) to the quality of good cane.
Watch for the Oliveri reeds being reintroduced, soon. These have real promise.
Some of the older Oliveri should be avoided.
aussie, aussie, aussie, Oy oy OY!
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Author: Jonathan
Date: 2001-06-04 02:41
Have you ever tried Daniels reeds? - they're considerably cheaper and are about the same quality as Vandoren in my experience. I live in Brisbane and For Winds usually has pretty good prices on reeds. I normally use Vandoren classic reeds which are cheaper than V12s but work better on my mouthpiece they cost around $30 - $40 wheras Daniels are around 27 bucks a box of 10. I am thinking of trying a synthetic reed sometime soon though but have only ever heard that they work on saxes or bass clarinets with any success for 'classical' playing. But i've never tried one so i don't know.
Jonathan Farquhar
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