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Forestone and technique

Author: interd0g
Date: 2010-11-17 16:49

I just started in with Forestone and I am beginning to notice benefits beyond just saving all that time working up cane reeds.
Playing on a perfectly consistent reed seems to enable me to focus on tone production without learning and adapting to new and changing reeds all the time

Also I now see I was using reed modification to compensate errors in embouchure and articulation . These reeds are training me to get my technique right, and leave behind the endless reed quest.

Also I was not often successful in getting my cane reed to a state of uniform response which Forestone has from the start.

Obviously, superior players undoubtedly become very skilled in reed culture and often end up with the perfect reed, but for the rest of us I recommend trying the synthetic reed. Stick with it for a week or more.

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Re: Forestone and technique

Author: William
Date: 2010-11-17 18:02

As I have been saying for over a year now, "Forestone reeds allow you to play the music without having to worry about to playing the reed". For my Chicago Kaspar #14 and Charles Bay "Ithica" custom mpc, I have found the new F4's work quite well and are most consistant. Good sound and great response from low E on up to D7. There are just no dull sounding ranges for these synthetic reeds--full, resonate sound throughout.

I am also using the new Forestone alto and tenor sax reeds for all my jazz and swing gigs. If you are a doubler, you should do yourself a favor and try them as well. For me, cane is a thing of the past.

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Re: Forestone and technique

Author: Scott S
Date: 2010-11-17 18:06

Does anyone have knowledge of when the Forestone bass clarinet reeds will become available?

Thanks!

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Re: Forestone and technique

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2010-11-17 21:12

Two related quotes:

many German players are renown for making their own reeds from scratch, when asked about this (and his use of Vandoren White Master reeds) Karl Leister replied, "I can either make reeds or practice."

at a master class many years ago, horn player Herman Baumann showed off his horn with all the interchangable crooks that put his horn in pretty much any key he desired within a few seconds, to which he added, "I can transpose, or I can practice."

All hail progress.

......................Paul Aviles

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