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 Re: Why are professionals going for harder reeds?
Author: Bob Bernardo 
Date:   2019-09-16 03:12

When I was selling the Steur reeds for the clarinet and saxophones almost all of the clarinet reeds were 3 and 3 1/2 strength reeds. as for the saxophone reeds 2 1/2 out sold all of the other strengths combined.

As for mouthpiece tip openings the most common tip opening players seem to like most is between 1.06 to 1.08mm's. When I send out 5 or 6 samples now ranging from 1.03 to 1.13 I sell very few over 1.08.

So my conclusion is the pros as well as advanced players don't want to work hard and in fact the double lip players still prefer around 1.02 or so with a 3 to 3 1/2 reed.

Julian Bliss and John Bruce Yeh seem to play on heavier reeds with more open tip openings. John sounds very good as we all know. Julian is an amazing jazz player. The Chicago Symphony hall is huge. Maybe players feel the need to use a slightly heavier reed there and a more open mouthpiece. When I played there for one concert I used a 1/2 strength harder reed. But at Severance Hall in Cleveland I didn't have to.

As far as top jazz player we also have Eddie Daniels who only uses a tip opening of 1.03 and we all know he can hit any note on the clarinet as well as bend notes.


Designer of - Vintage 1940 Cicero Mouthpieces and the La Vecchia mouthpieces


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