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Re: Leblanc altos

Author: NOLA Ken
Date: 2022-06-05 17:56

After returning to playing clarinet as an old fart a few years ago I picked up a Leblanc swan neck alto just to fool around with and had it overhauled. I went through more than ten mouthpieces and various reeds, consistently encountering the stuffiness, poor clarion performance, and intonation issues mentioned above. Then I bit the bullet for a Fobes San Francisco Zinner and a Grabner mouthpiece, and after sorting through a bunch of different reeds I found that those mpcs and Legere American Cut and Fibracell 1.5 alto sax reeds cleared up all of those problems. I've not played other makes of altos, but this one has become just fun to play. Clear focused sound top to bottom, good responsiveness, projection and reasonably well in tune. I like it. Probably not a solution for most serious alto players, and just another data point as to how finicky these instruments are.

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