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Legere Reeds and WIDE intervals

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2014-04-20 02:13

This really took me by surprise. As I sat down to practice into my second week of experimenting with Legere Quebec Cut, I pulled out the trusty Kroepsch exercises (one or two line ditties covering most of the basic Romantic technique in all keys). The ones with the particularly wide skips have always been a bit dicey for me and represent where I still take time to try and smooth things out. To my GREAT surprise, the experience on the Legere reed was almost (really!!) like playing these exercises for the first time. Not that they were difficult, but that they were so much EASIER !!!!

I am a pretty inquisitive person and would really love to KNOW why this is. At present all I can do is speculate that the evenness of the material eliminates "nodal" issues either side to side (balance) and/or throughout the material allowing it to respond CORRECTLY for each octave much quicker.

Until now I'd only been obsessing about the overall timbre and the response in swift articulation (still requiring adjustments on my part) but this really pleasant surprise.

I am also more than I little taken aback that I have not seen anyone mention this before. This seems like a particularly important feature. One that would be a big marketing advantage. Maybe Legere should make more of this particular intrinsic characteristic of their product !!

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

P.S. glissandi are also facilitated by the Legere material. I found myself sliding effortlessly up and down basically stoping wherever I wanted along the smear. Since I find the glissando more of a novelty it didn't affect me quite as dramatically but it is also worth noting.

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