Author: kilo
Date: 2021-02-28 02:06
Maybe, Paul, we need to find a marker that will bond to polypropylene?
OneWatt, it's my theory that there's a style and cut of Legere that will work for anyone, you just have to keep trying them. Like the musicians who started using soprano sax reeds on their clarinets and loved the result. Nothing wrong with cane, of course, but every now and then it might be worth ex[perimenting with plastic.
Anyway, I've given my opinion of the new European Cut Legere — it works exceptionally well on my Fobes CF bass; good response and I love that it's slightly wider.
I've given my opinion of the functionality of the new reed case — again, it's well-designed and keeps reeds safe. It's also completely unnecessary since I use a Selmer reed case for soprano and old La Voz holders for my bass reeds and have never had an issue with taking a new Legere reed out of their old package and slipping the reed into my holder where it will happily live for the better part of a year. They get an "A" for design, however.
And I've shared my opinion about the environmental aspects of the reed case. We currently have no recycling anything during Covid and even before that, only #2 was accepted. And I've heard reports that many plastic recycling programs are more for feels than anything else, sort of a polypropylene Potemkin recycling program to assuage our concerns about waste. The new case rates a "C-" for assuming that everyone will recycle them. Luckily, at the rate of use, it'll be years before I've got a box of old cases.
However, I did locate an outfit called "Gimme 5" where we can mail our #5 plastic for responsible disposal. Now guess what? — the program is temporarily suspended due to Covid — however, they do currently collect #5 at Whole Foods stores. For me the nearest Whole Foods is 3½ hours away so I'll just hold onto them and mail them in if the program is revived. I'll let people know here if I find out that the service is running again.
Gimme 5
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