Received my Hemp and Onyx reed last week and having some mixed opinions about them.
In general Johnny’s demonstration is very accurate.
In my opinion, the carbon onyx reed felt and seemed superior over the hemp.
Also, noticed that they are very accurate using the tuner
(a little flat through out the register but easy to adjust with the mouth).
If every sax player in a horn section would use one of these reeds they should always
play in tune.
However, the altissimo register is for me very unstable. Tried working off a bit on the hemp
reed (at the altissimo point of the reed) but no improvement. So far I experienced that with
the cone reeds, the harder reed the more stable the altissimo range gets (talking #2.5-#3.5).
Would like to try a MH onyx reed instead of the M that I got, Johnny do you have any of those or do you
have any other suggestions?
Lots of benefits with these new reeds though, thanks for introducing them.
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