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Re: boiling legeres

Author: fskelley
Date: 2017-12-10 02:14

Clipping is a one way street- heat treatment (apparently- if you're not too severe) reverses itself eventually. For sure do not clip a previously heat treated Legere without waiting days if not weeks for it to come back.

Legeres are very hard to clip cleanly compared to cane. Test your technique on one you know is no good. European needs a soprano sax trimmer. Hard to trim as little as you might want. I discourage it, but if you're desperate*... After clipping you may need to sand or scrape if it came out ragged, again much harder on any synthetic than cane. I swore off such operations, and wondered what possessed me to even try them.

*I'm reminded of something I read about the 1958 Buicks. "Only desperate men put fins on fins", or close to that. Clarinet playing has made me that desperate from time to time. Doing better these days, mostly from accepting what works and making the most of it, good advice most of the time in most subject areas.

Stan in Orlando

EWI 4000S with modifications

Post Edited (2017-12-10 04:31)

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