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Re: Forestone Premium

Author: Barry Vincent
Date: 2014-05-22 01:39

Hi Arnoldstang. Just bear with me on this. I find in practice that it is not necessary at all to 'touch' up the Forestone synthetic reeds as they are as near to 'perfect' a reed as you can get.
Trouble can be had as soon as one tries to 'alter and improve' these reeds. It seems to be a compulsive habit of Clarinet players that they must tinker even with the synthetics. Or rather, they carry over this habit from cane reeds to synthetics. These reeds should be used as they are. However, Forestone reeds can have their resistance altered a bit by placing the reed very slightly higher of lower on the MP. (as suggested by Forestone) I only have experience with the standard Forestone. I don't have any Premiums as yet. If you have problems with the Forestone Premium reed 'warping' , then you should communicate with Forestone and try and get a replacement for the defective reeds.
To answer your question as to why a thin film of moisture gets between the reed and MP table when I use these synthetics it's because I use Rovner ligatures. These don't bind up the reeds as tightly as say the standard metal ligatures so moisture between the reed & MP table can be a problem sometimes.

BJV
"The Clarinet is not a horn"

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