Author: donald
Date: 2017-12-20 07:51
Kia ora,
I usually find that Vandoren V12 3s are mostly a little soft- but when I can find one, or adjust a harder one, to suit I get a fuller tone quality. Vandoren "blue box" 3s tend to be a better fit strength wise, and have a more "springy" feel with a brighter sound.
As I wrote above, this translates to a 3.25 in the Sop sax Signature reeds. I haven't tried dipping the 3.5 I've got into hot water yet...
I'll attach a recording from a recent performance using the Sop Sax reed- this reed was the only reed I used for teaching (and quite a few gigs/rehearsals) from March until a few weeks ago.
The proof is in the pudding- you may not like my sound or my playing, but this is what I managed to come up with on that day (in quite a crappy acoustic). It's an edit from an Auckland Chamber Orchestra performance of Ibert: Capriccio for 10 instruments. I've included various bits so you can hear the clarinet as a soloist, in the group texture, blending etc
I know people have mentioned before that they find their pitch low on Legere reeds, my experience is that the reed doesn't really make it's best sound when you are "pushing up" pitch wise. You might say this applies to ALL REEDS, but I think it is doubly so for Legere. It's taken me time to get used to playing with a shorter barrel and just voicing differently- you can hear that I'm still tending to play a bit lower than my colleagues in this group. For some reason this has been less of an issue in the Bach Musica orchestra (where I'm principal clarinet all the time, in ACO we share).
dn
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The Clarinet BBoard
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