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Re: Legere Reeds

Author: FwLineberry
Date: 2018-03-04 20:11

Ben Shaffer wrote:

> Over the last 9 months or so, I've bought 3 other Classic
> reeds and to me they are all duds, they have a very stuffy
> sound.

I had the same experience. Bought one Classic and it plays/sounds fantastic, so I bought several more and they are all stuffy and dull sounding with sluggish response compared to the first one.

I've had the same experience with the Signature series. One plays/sounds fantastic, several others just play/sound "ok". The "ok" reeds are still better than the stuffy Classic reeds, however.

I've tried two of the European Signature reeds. Both have been really good. They are based off the soprano sax Signature reed (which some people prefer), so they are a little wider than the regular Signature. This caused me to damage my first ES reed while carelessly slipping it into my reed case.

I've also tried one Signature soprano sax reed. It plays/sounds decent but seems unnecessary as the ES clarinet reed is based on the same design and fits the clarinet mouthpiece better.

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Backun Beta, Lyrique Libertas, Lyrique 570C
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Rovner Dark and Rovner Versa ligatures
Legere reeds

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