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Re: Which Legere Reed on BD5?

Author: Bob Bernardo
Date: 2020-03-26 21:24

Don't buy new mouthpieces to fit reeds! It probably won't solve your problems. There are NOT any Legere friendly mouthpieces on the market, unless you adjust the Legere's. Sure some mouthpieces might play a shade better, but you won't ever get that great sound. These reeds sometimes sound ok but the design causes a lose of harmonics, or overtones, whatever you wish to call it.

Learn how to fix these reeds if you like them, but the harmonics may not speak out very well. Yes you will save money by not throwing out cane reeds. So for the average player the Legere's can work with adjustments.

I need to repeat this, the Legere reeds are made wrong so a mouthpiece cannot fix this. It can only help a bit, and if you go back to cane reeds the mouthpiece may or may not sound right.

I'm kinda against changing mouthpieces a lot. Find or keep a really great mouthpiece. Make your reeds fit the mouthpiece.

One time I was in the finals of a major orchestra and I was living in Maryland. The weather was rain. I took the train to New York City and there was snow there. The first day of the auditions I made the final 4, the next day my reeds died from the climate change. Yes I lost. A Legere reed may have gotten me the job. Maybe... At least I would have sounded good enough to play.

I'll take a cane reed over a plastic reed, but for those stinky weather changes a plastic reed might get you through a very bad day.

The FEEL of cane reeds and Legere reeds is a lot different. I can't make a good mouthpiece using Legere reeds, but Richard Hawkins can. The last I heard he uses Legere's. His mouthpieces might help people playing on Legere's. Tell him hello for me. He's a good man. I think he probably adjusts his Legere's. So ask him to set you up with a few Legere reeds to fit his mouthpiece line.

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

Yamaha Artist 2015

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