Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2016-05-31 04:28
I'll concede the idea that, while I may prefer the sound of cane, the sound and clarity of articulation I get from a Legere are more than acceptable. But the one problem I have with every synthetic I've tried so far is an annoying instability in the third register, particularly from E6 and higher. It's both flatness and a certain wildness of quality. This is a problem I don't have with cane if the reed is the right strength. It feels like a cane reed with a too thin tip. Using a harder synthetic isn't a solution, because harder strengths feel stuffy over the rest of the clarinet and are still not comfortable in the altissimo.
Since the players (e.g. John Moses, Ricardo Morales and Sam Caveziel for three whose playing I have heard) who use Legere successfully don't seem to have this problem, I assume I need to make an adjustment in my approach somewhere to solve it for myself. Have those of you who have made the conversion to plastic happily had to deal with this, and, if so, what have you done to solve it?
Karl
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