Author: Bart
Date: 1999-08-24 14:31
Breaking reeds will always happen, there are always moments you´re a little less careful (at least, there are moments that *I* am).
Every now and then, when I stop playing to look at the score, I press the reed towards the mouthpiece. Just like I always did with natural reeds, it´s just a habit that I picked up. I learned it from my teacher to make a new reed play a little more comfortable when it´s young.
At the time, my teacher was surprised at the sound of the Legere, more ´classical´ than he´d expected from plastic. He bought a Fibracell to try a synthetic for himself. When I showed up for my next lesson, he had broken the thing in the same way I would later destroy my Legere. The Fibracell, however cracked it was, did manage to sound quite OK for a couple of months (being used not too intensely), just like my Legere.
I never broke any cane reed in this way, but then, once a cane reed was damaged, it sounded like (....).
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