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Re: legeres again

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2019-07-20 07:43

I think there are enough top players out there using Legere that demonstrate their ability to perform through the entire range of the horn.

I had answered in the earlier thread but I think I may have described things poorly. With cane we can "muscle" a reed that is too hard by bearing down on it and affectively making the aperture smaller, as if the mouthpiece had a smaller tip opening than it does. Cane being more forgiving (one of the things that cane does better than plastic) will then play fine under these conditions. The plastic reeds are dependent on more of the affective dimensions being in play. So when one bears down on a plastic reed it leaves you with the remainder that is now even harder (the tip is thicker on harder strengths), so you get the impression that it just "collapses" but it really just doesn't want to vibrate much at all.

Getting the right strength for the reed is so important. It is also important to know what the correct amount of embouchure support is. The good news is that when you get it, it turns out to be much less effort.

..............Paul Aviles

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