Bret Pimentel, woodwinds

Tag: Legere

Review and blindfold test: Légère Signature Series clarinet reeds

Jan 22, 2010

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in Product reviews

for Clarinet

A few months ago, I posted about plastic reeds, and reported some of what I had read on another woodwind blog about the Légère Signature Series and Forestone clarinet reeds. For reasons unknown to me, the post from which I originally quoted has been removed, but there are similar thoughts expressed in a more recent post. …
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Thoughts on plastic reeds

Jul 25, 2009

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in Woodwind playing and pedagogy

for Bassoon, Clarinet, Oboe, Saxophone

I have been following with interest the discussion on the web of the new synthetic clarinet reeds by Forestone. A few days ago, the distinguished Sherman Friedland posted an absolutely glowing review: The Forestone reeds marks the beginning of a totally new era in the development of reeds, all reeds. It is a new beginning …
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