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Re: Do Légère reeds play flat?

Author: kerryklari
Date: 2022-07-17 13:01

For what it's worth, I'm not adjusting an embouchure that is used to cane. Literally decades ago I played oboe for a while and that involved as much time learning to make reeds as learning to play the instrument. When I started clarinet I decided I just didn't want anything to do with that and chose Légère reeds because they seemed to be the best brand around (that would have been about 9 years ago so there was probably less choice at the time). Same this time around. I have tried cane but only because the new clarinet I bought came with a free mouthpiece that said it worked with specific cane reeds and I thought I should try them. They play more in tune for me (and I'm not good enough to be adjusting my embouchure to a different type of reed) and they also have a better tone, hence my experimentation with different mouthpieces since Légères can obviously sound great. Why not just use the cane? First one out of the box sounded great and I thought, maybe all this stuff about them being unpredictable is overstated. Second one sounded ok, not quite as good; third one was virtually unplayable.

So it's back to plastic and if I need to use a slightly shorter barrel, that's not a problem.

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