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RE: Greenline Reed

Author: David Spiegelthal
Date: 2002-02-26 16:48

I was under the impression that much of the characteristic sound and response of natural cane could be attributed to the semi-random fibrous structure of the material. Legere synthetic reeds are, as I understand it, unique in that they are manufactured in such a way as to draw the polymer material out into a longitudinal fibrous network rather similar to that of natural cane. All the other synthetic reed materials I'm aware of, including also such non-reed things as Buffet Greenline material, Trex flooring, and basic hardware-store particle board, are "isotropic" (I think it's the right word, I'm trying to say 'non-directional or 'non-oriented') matrices of particles (NOT longitudinal fibers) in a resin binder, or just plain non-oriented plastics. The aforementioned BG composite reed sounds like it falls into the same category. If it doesn't have a fibrous structure with a certain amount of randomness to it (a la natural cane), then I would be skeptical of it sounding like natural cane, regardless of what combination of materials is used to make it.

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