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Review of latest EUROPEAN Legrere reed

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2021-02-27 12:38

Firstly it is important to put up front that I have found the European Signature reeds to work great and very cane like over the last five years that I have used them. The latest iteration is the same (exactly the same) great product that features wonderful constancy from reed to reed in terms of quality and strength (though some have not found the strength constancy I have, these last three that I have are virtually identical to each other to me).

But I have a few problems.

The plastic sarcophagus has been criticized in another recent thread. I have to say that I find the new reed holder wasteful space. It could be at least half its length if it just had a flush opening at the front........slide the reed out; pop it back in. Although it is marked a recycle number of "5" and Waste Management (WM) takes 1-7. That's where all three of mine went sans the little rubbery insert that got trashed. Who has room for that in a case (if you carry multiple Legeres)? I use the LEbLANC four reed holder; small, thin, holds the reed in securely and flat without any undue pressure.

Finally there is the "logo" issue. I was really looking forward to having the strength of the reed imprinted in a more permanent way upon the reed. In my first attempt to put one of the reeds back into the sarcophagus, I used my thumbnail to try and shimmy the reed backwards (not the way to get them back in place) and my thumbnail slipped down the "bark" scraping the "Legere" name off the reed! Apparently the new method of imprinting uses a thin film or laminate of sorts that can be fairly easy to scrape off. Though a slight improvement over the round strength sticker that fell off after just a few uses, this new marking method is a far cry from the older much more permanent logo on the reed.

So what's the problem? I have multiple reed guards each one with a different associated strength. What I did up to this point is use a permanent marker to replace the sticker for designation purposes. The problem there is that the surface of the Legere does not hold the permanent marker for more than a couple of uses either.

Come on guys! How hard would it be to use the older printing method with the strength designation ON the reed already?!!!?

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

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