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Author: saxlite
Date: 2019-08-20 03:40
I have several Legere reeds that have warped across the tip making them use much more air that a flat reed. Has anyone else seen this phenomena? Is there a way of preventing this?
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2019-08-20 09:03
I've had a corner or two bend back, which seemed odd to me because they were either on the mouthpiece or in a Rico plastic reed guard. I have decided a very subtle reed guard would be better (I have no theory there, just a guess) and have had no curving of the tips using the D'Addario reed guard.
But who knows?
.............Paul Aviles
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Author: kdk
Date: 2019-08-20 19:46
I've never had a problem like that with Legeres. Are they curving in toward the tip rail or out away from it?
Karlsaxlite wrote:
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2019-08-20 21:17
My situation may have been caused by the friction of pulling them in and out of the Rico guard which I at first thought would help train them straight after playing. But maybe keeping them tight in a reed guard caused the same sort of reaction you get when you pass a ribbon across a pair of scissors.
The corner edge of about three (out of twenty) has ever so slightly curled back out away from the mouthpiece. In my case it is fractionally so and does not affect the playing condition of the reed in any way that I notice. But I have moved away from the "binding" reed guard and have noticed no such effect since.
.................Paul Aviles
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Author: oian
Date: 2019-08-21 07:27
I have had a couple of Legere Bass clarinet reeds where the tip curled slightly toward the mouthpiece after a fair amount of use, finally making them unusable. Both of them were put in hot water to soften them a bit. I keep them on the mouthpiece in a mouthpiece cover when not in use so nothing touches the reed except the ligature. From the previous post, maybe the hot water treatment to soften them may not be such a good idea.
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