Author: igalkov
Date: 2019-11-16 10:17
Hello everybody,
I play Legere Euros since spring, professionally, playing mostly second clarinet but sometimes first in various performances: operas, ballets, symphonic and pop concerts.
First of all: Legere doesn't send directly to Russia (shame on them) but exchange program works decently, so I don't get any complaints about cost or inconsistency. You've got a pack of messed up cane? Live with it. You've got a messed Legere? Send it back with no question asked and get a new one. It's not messed up, you just don't like something in it? Send it back. That's what I call "a service".
Second: they just NEED a proper mouthpiece to bloom. I thought it's "hmmm… ok" until a refacer of mine redone my D'Addario Reserve for Legeres. And yes, he keeps a secret what he did; I noticed he took off a lot of material from facing, so the table now is wide enough to perfectly fit extremely wide Legere reed. You know what: I never experienced better setup in my life, with no other reed/mpc combo. Never! Until I've got Behn mpc recently and played it with cane. The weather and humidity changes are awful here, so cane just doesn't play half a week. For me it's not a "first setup" and "backup setup", it's two interchangeable setups I use for different conditions: acoustics, music, weather, partners, etc. For today, I know I will play Legere in the mid-day performance and Behn mpc in the evening, and will not feeling I'm doing something "second best" in none of the situations.
Third: Legere sound thins out and becomes "plastic" to an end of an hour, so I don't think it's what they say in the adverts, "rotating prolongs their life" etc. Rotating just makes it playable at all. If I have a solo closer to an end of a 2-hour concert, I just need another Legere for a second hour or it would be awful. The first reed will be as new on the day after, but you can't do anything to make it playable in the same day when it dies to an hour's end.
Post Edited (2019-11-16 10:22)
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