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Re: Review of latest EUROPEAN Legrere reed

Author: HANGARDUDE
Date: 2021-03-14 05:56

Judy:

I should also note that the wider width of the reed than the rails than the mouthpiece window appears to be a characteristic design feature of the Euro cut reeds in general, whether this proposition is true or not, I'll let either someone from Legere or Legere experts weigh in.

On a slightly digressing note: Back when I played a German system+bore bass clarinet(an inexpensive yet great quality Foag Low C, and an entirely different design that won't work with normal Boehm bass gear w/o substantial mods) I mostly used Vandoren Blue Box alto clarinet/sax reeds on the German bass mouthpieces I have(15mm window vs 18mm on the far more common Boehm bass mpcs, and the openings of the former are much more similar to a Boehm alto clarinet's). The alto reeds I used are 1mm wider(16mm), and yet they worked really well for me, and such is the same case for many other German bass cl players out there, so much that even Johannes Gleichweit has made German bass pieces to work with the blue box alto reeds alongside the standard German bass reeds(1mm narrower at 15mm)!
Comes to show you that there are exceptions where reeds wider than the mpc window can still work well!

Josh

Post Edited (2021-04-15 00:08)

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