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Re: Legere Reed Observations

Author: Chris P
Date: 2019-03-23 00:33

I recently bought Legere Signature reeds for everything else (most sizes of sax and clarinet that is) and enjoying their immediate playability and sound. I now have a bag full of cane reeds gathered up which I haven't used and they're pretty much redundant, leaving my cases looking empty without all the boxes of spare reeds I kept in the compartments. I use Signature 2 on all my saxes (except sopranino as I've got to get one for that).

I use an alto sax 3 on basset horn/alto clarinet and a Signature 3 bass clarinet reed on bass which play much better than the cane reeds I was using.

As for soprano clarinets I'm using Signature European cut 3.25 and have found the throat notes are now flatter, so I've had to use a slightly shorter barrel to compensate so I'm not having to lip them up to pitch.

On Eb clarinet I use a Studio 2.5 which I thought was too soft (I bought it for sopranino sax but it's too hard for that) and the 3 I bought with intention of using on Eb clarinet (which I find too hard) works nicely on Oehler system as the width and length of scrape is near on identical to a German Bb clarinet reed - only the heel is shorter but that's not an issue.

And for oboe too - I no longer need a water pot when playing oboe that usually gets spilt when I or someone else knocks it over as well as not needing to carry around a case full of reed tools - except when playing cor as I'm just waiting for the day plastic cor anglais reeds ago public.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.

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