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Re: Legere Plastic Reed

Author: Roger Aldridge
Date: 2007-07-08 14:08

My experience with Legere is similar to Hans. I initially tried Legere because most of my playing involves doubling and I was sick & tired of my reeds drying out and the associated hassles. I tried various synthetic reeds in the past and all of them went sailing into the trash can. But, I found Legere to be different from them and I quickly saw Legere's potential. It took me several weeks to become used to Legere on clarinet. I found that I very much pefer Quebec...most likely because I only use thick cut reeds. I love the quality of tone that I get with a #3 Quebec on my Grabner K14 with a Vandoren Klassik string ligature.

Using Legere on tenor saxophone was a struggle. I tried both kinds of Legere saxohone reeds (reguar and Studio) in various strengths and they sounded terrible on the set up I was using at the time -- a Morgan 3C on my 1934 Buescher New Aristocrat. After trying different mouthpiece facings including Morgan 5L, 6L, etc. Finally, the ball was hit out of the park with a #2.5 regular Legere on a custom Morgan 6C. BEAUTIFUL sound and playability! It sounds so good that I have no reason to go back to cane.

Similar to William, I get superb results with a Legere #3 bass clarinet reed on my Grabner LB bass clarinet mouthpiece. I tried using Legere tenor saxophone reeds on bass clarinet and I didn't like the results. Whereas, a #3 Legere bass clarinet reed feels like a natural match.

The thing about Legere is they work better on some mouthpiece facings and types of ligatures than others. Several ligatures that worked beautifully for me with cane reeds did not seal Legere reeds properly. Thus, I had to try different things until I found the mouthpiece-reed-ligature combination that was the right match for me. This enabled me to get optimal results with Legere reeds.

Roger

Post Edited (2007-07-08 15:17)

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