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Re: Legere Strenth and Intonation

Author: MarkS
Date: 2022-11-24 01:33

For the past three years, I have been using Silverstein ambipoly primo cut reeds with a Playnick B2 mouthpiece. They played in tune on both my Festival B-flat and R13 A-clarinets, using Fobes lined cocobolo barrels with lengths of 66 mm and 65 mm, respectively.

Just in the last week, I decided to return to a setup that I had used previously: Legere European Cut on a Grabner Virtuoso mouthpiece (Zinner blank, 1.10 tip opening, optimized for 3.5 V12 reed, but also advertised to be Legere friendly.) I was very pleased with the sound using a new Legere 3.5. The new formula reed had a richer sound than a lightly used 3.5 Legere reed from the old formula. The Festival played in tune using a Behn adjustable barrel set at 65.5 mm, so no significant problem with flatness. The A-clarinet played in tune with the barrel slightly shorter. (I didn't measure, but probably 65 mm.)

I did try the Legere reed on the Playnick mouthpiece, but did not get a sound that I liked. I plan to see how the Legere plays with the Fobes barrels. I started with the Behn adjustable because I expected that a much shorter barrel length would be required, but evidently not so.

Mark

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