Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2022-11-22 01:24
I will take at face value that John Moses (great New York sideman), who helped design the Legere Signature Bb clarinet reeds, actually uses them and uses them successfully (he said so himself).
But my experience has been that the Bb Signature reeds are rather weak feeling and playing. I think I went up to a 4.5 and couldn't find anything that would stand up to continuous playing or the highest dynamic ranges.
The Euro Cut reeds (formerly known as European Signature reeds) have always had a very good core in the sound and stood up to lots of playing and any dynamic you could care to play. If there is a down side, they are wider and will not fit within the Vandoren M/O ligature (or any other hard ligature that has a cane centric pouch size meant to hold a cane reed.......I'm not sure if there is another ligature like that but it's really easy to avoid, I have just about every ligature on the market).
If you're new to Legere I'd start as soft in strength as you think might work, then work your way up, moving up as they either don't last a day's worth of use, or just "shut off" at really loud dynamics. This was a long and arduous process for me, but well worth the trouble.
You don't need special mouthpieces or ligatures BUT there is some extra resonance under a wider variety of circumstances with plastic ligatures such as the Luyben or even carbon fiber ligatures (expensive).
................Paul Aviles
Post Edited (2022-11-22 05:58)
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