Author: Dan Shusta
Date: 2022-05-03 21:28
First of all, my thanks to all who have responded. Excellent, personalized methods were revealed by everyone.
super20dan, you beat me to it when you mentioned Legere reeds. However, I have several questions for you: 1) Do you rotate your Legere reeds? 2) When you play continuously for a rather long period of time, have you ever felt the need to quickly swap out one Legere for another for whatever reason? 3) Do you find the same reed strengths to play basically the same when going from one new Legere reed to another? 4) On your Eb clarinet, have you tried a slightly stronger reed strength to hit the highest notes reliably?
I have a question that I would like to pose to everyone. When a player adjusts a cane reed alone using one of the various devices on the market, due to varying cane densities that could possibly exist as part of the reed structure coupled with possible slight variations in facing abnormalities, is the reed truly optimized? I suspect not because I believe the cane reed optimization has to be done while attached to the mouthpiece to encompass all of the possible abnormalities in the reed, the mouthpiece facing, and even, possibly, the type of ligature that is used. Actually, I believe that the attached cane reed is really being optimized to the entire clarinet.
What do you think?
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