kevgermany
ex Landrover Nut
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Anyone have any experience of these?
My son's been having a lot of bottom lip problems with his clarinet, so we thought we'd try a plastic reed, to see if it helped.
Not a lot of choices available for the german system clarinet - so this was what we ended up with. Initial impressions are that it's very buzzy/scratchy, doesn't sound nice at all. However he played it for a couple of weeks, and switched back to a cane reed for the recital last night. What a difference. He's much smoother and mellower on the cane reed, than he was before he switched to the fiberreed. So I think we'll keep it this way. Fiberreed fo pactice and cane fo recitals.
Be interested to hear what others have to say, I've no intention of trying one on a sax at the moment - not with the sound on the clarinet, far too expensive if it doesn't work.
My son's been having a lot of bottom lip problems with his clarinet, so we thought we'd try a plastic reed, to see if it helped.
Not a lot of choices available for the german system clarinet - so this was what we ended up with. Initial impressions are that it's very buzzy/scratchy, doesn't sound nice at all. However he played it for a couple of weeks, and switched back to a cane reed for the recital last night. What a difference. He's much smoother and mellower on the cane reed, than he was before he switched to the fiberreed. So I think we'll keep it this way. Fiberreed fo pactice and cane fo recitals.
Be interested to hear what others have to say, I've no intention of trying one on a sax at the moment - not with the sound on the clarinet, far too expensive if it doesn't work.