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  • March 14, 2019 at 9:22 am #83385
    Gary Deripaska
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      Gary,
      As far as reeds are concerned Johnny has a lot of information on reeds, https://www.howtoplaysaxophone.org/fiberreed-synthetic-saxophone-reeds/. Just this past week I switched from cane reeds ( RICO # 2 ) to the Fiberreed CARBON ONYX Medium Soft, and soft. I bought them from here on Johnny’s web site. His turn time is awesome on getting your order.
      I absolutely love them Every note from the low Bb to the high F# is crystal clear ( TENOR SAX) ( No wobbling on the lower notes at all) and loud. When they arrived yesterday I took them out of the mail box brought them in slapped on the Soft FIBEREED CARBON ONYX and played several songs ( Without soaking them or wetting them) all in tune and loud. The tone I get is amazing I’m using a Berg Larsen 110/2 metal mouth Piece. Then tried the MEDIUM SOFT CARBON ONYX and loved it even more. I can’t see me ever going back to a cane reed.

      With the cane reeds, always had to wet the reeds for long periods of time then warm up a bit before actually playing.

      Hope this helps, I am sooo sold on these reeds now. If I’m not mistaken it’s what Johnny plays with and of course his sound is pretty awesome.

      Take Care and enjoy the Sax, there’s a lot of talent on this forum and a lot of courses Johnny has to help you improve from basic to advance playing.

      Gary Deripaska
      Southern California

      March 14, 2019 at 1:25 pm #83392
      john
      Keymaster

        welcome Gary and thanks for sharing your story!
        sounds like you’ll do fine on sax since you have a good amount of knowledge already from other instrument experience. That’s how I entered it to, way back when. Knowing how to read etc does make things easier but the saxophone is it’s own beast as you are already aware.

        Getting into customizing your own reeds is a great idea. Especially at an early stage cause if/when you jump up to a harder strength it may very well feel too hard so you can sand it down slightly to help make the jump much easier and gradual….no reason to wait to get “good enough” for this.

        March 14, 2019 at 5:24 pm #83412
        brother cavefish
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          reeds are a big journey, they are vast and vary alot, and one has to find the right mouthpiece and the reed to go with it, it is hard to says whats best, but , from my point of view, good ones are vandoren, rico, hemke there is videos of these by UK sax on youtube, great display of sounds you want to find a good MP though, that suits your needs, i am a tenor man myself so i like the warm dark MPs , if i were an alto i would still go with dark, Steve Neff has demos of many types of MPs , good luck its a little bit of a ride to find the right combo

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