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Re: Plastic

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2020-01-30 16:32

The issue is not just trying ONE. To find the right strength pairing for your mouthpiece and embouchure approach, you need to have a passel of them on hand in 1/4 strength increments starting at the softest that "works" and moving up slowly over a several weeks (what I find works).

The best way to do this without spending a fortune on the process is to get your initial reeds from Amazon and invoke their policy to take ANYTHING back for refund. As I say though you must WORK at finding the right strength and it is still advisable to rotate through at least four at a time.

Advantages?

Firstly yes, you will find that a single reed will last 6 months to a year (a huge savings over the cost of cane).

They are perfectly smooth (and advantage that you'll be hard pressed to live without once you get used to it).

CONSTANCY!!!! A huge advantage is picking up a reed and knowing that it will play exactly as it did yesterday..........particularly during weather changes. No cane reed will do that.

Now, if you compare side to side with your favorite, broken-in cane reed will you hear a difference? Yes, cane is superior, BUT the difference is far more slight between the Legere European cut reed and cane than the difference used to be just ten years ago before this particular Legere was available.

So you must decide for yourself of the advantages of the synthetic reed balance out the slight loss of sonic integrity (which is SLIGHT).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0BmXMoPFHs

................Paul Aviles

Post Edited (2020-01-30 16:37)

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