Author: TomS
Date: 2016-09-22 15:55
In the early 1980s, one of my old (now deceased) teachers, returning to the US after a decade in the UK, arrived here using Vandoren German cut reeds on a Vandoren A2 crystal. He made principal clarinet with the Arkansas Symphony using this setup. His instruments were Yamaha YCL-82 and YCL-65 and achieved a really clear, centered sound, not really of like the warm/dark paradigm in America at the time, but he still got the gig.
I tried German cuts for a long time on some sort of MP (don't remember what) ...
Eventually he was pressured into a darker sound, and moved back to Buffet and with the advent of V-12s, started using those with a 5RV-lyre or B45.
So, German cut on a French MP is something that has been used successfully by others ... you just have to keep the reed centered ... not a lot of lateral adjustment range.
I wonder if the shorter vamp on the German Legere bring up the pitch?
Tom
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