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Re: "Covered" tone?

Author: dorjepismo ★2017
Date: 2018-01-13 22:53

Like Leister's sound a lot. Recently been trying some Leuthner Viennese Cut 2 1/2s I got from Behn - I'm definitely on the soft strengths side - and the sound reminds me of Leister. Behn's descriptions of reeds are very useful, and seem to come from his own experience rather than manufacturers' PR. They support the idea of a "covered" sound as cutting down on the upper partials, but the other side of that is stability in the throat tones. These reeds have one of the solidest open Gs I've ever heard in a soft reed with an open facing. Remains to be seen how they do for cutting through in a large ensemble. Think it would be a false dichotomy, though, to contrast "dark" and "covered" with "exciting," or even "zing." If the music's exciting, you should be able to do exciting. "Dark" or "covered" should just mean that exciting won't loosen anybody's fillings.

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