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Re: Legere French Cut: review

Author: SecondTry
Date: 2023-12-05 20:27

I had written a review of the product--expressly writing about interest in your thoughts Paul, in a prior thread published shortly after the bboard was restarted: a thread that seems to have gotten lost when Mr. Charette's restarting of the board had a hiccup that necessitated him rebooting from a backup that was likely absent my thread.

I know you had acquired the reed about a day after I pointed to its availability at Sweetwater Inc.

I'm glad you both liked it and focused your review on existing Legere users because my also favorable review targeted mostly cane users like me.

While I don't think I'll be switching off of cane as a result of this product's release, I do think that this reed is the best Legere has put out to date and it might very well make a bunch of cane users that are on the fence about making the permanent move to a synthetic do so. You can bet it will go in my gig case and may prove invaluable in the humid summer months when it seems harder for me to find decent "arundo donax" to play on.

At least for me, unlike previous Legere offerings, I do not find my pitch suffering (nearly as much) while playing the French Cut offering. I ordered a strength 3.0, which I found very comparable to Vandoren Cane Blue box in strength.

To me, this offering feels and sounds more like cane. At times--and for certain notes and passages--and I felt this way with Vandoren's VK1 offering--I could forget I was playing a synthetic. I have not felt that way on prior Legere products.

As with all Legeres, I have found that reed positioning is crucial. Failure to properly place the product, IMHO will prove less forgiving than doing so with cane.

I give Legere a definite thumbs up and recommend that users give it a try.

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