Author: sfalexi
Date: 2014-04-23 01:01
My thoughts....
I think it's because the legere is manufactured to be a very well adjusted reed throughout.
Most times, when people adjust a reed, they adjust only the tip, or maybe only the corners, or in other words, neglect some part of the reed. So this causes a very playable reed, but we compensate with our embouchure as we start to go all over the scale without realizing it.
With wide leaps and a not perfectly adjusted reed, one of two things might happen to try to compensate for the reed. Either, a deliberate embouchure shift (rolling the bottom lip down or up the reed, or perhaps tightening or loosening the embouchure pressure depending on whether leaping to a higher or lower note), or a process of thinking "Oh please, oh please, oh please..." while focusing on keeping that fast airstream.
Tom Ridenour has talked about how to properly test a reed and I agree with him. Get your stable good embouchure......
ALL IN ONE BREATH
Blow a good forte chalemeau "C". Maintain air pressure, do NOT move your embouchure and add the register key. A "G" should pop out. Keep everything the same and lift off your index finger. An "E" should ring clearly. Add your right hand C#/F# lever. The "E" should change to a clear "A". If you can cross all those register breaks with no change in embouchure or air pressure, it's a good reed.
Try this with the legeres, and try it with cane reeds. Betting the legeres do a better job than your out of the box reeds, or even reeds you may have adjusted if you neglected to take into account adjusting the heart, back, wings, center, tip, etc.
Alexi
US Army Japan Band
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