BG France A80L-3 Reed Performer

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Reed Performer

  • Large size
  • For tenor and baritone saxophone as well as bass clarinet
  • More stable sound
  • Doubles the life of the leaves
  • Rounder sound in all registers
  • Reusable for more reeds
  • Suitable for cane reeds and synthetic reeds
  • Brings worn or weakened reeds back into shape
  • Applying it to the base of the reed also prevents the ligature from slipping
  • A BG innovation
Available since January 2018
Item number 429522
Sales Unit 1 piece(s)
Instrument Wood
3,98 €
Including VAT; Excluding 19,90 € shipping
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4.2 / 5

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The jury is out on these.
D.T.F. 27.10.2021
I play tenor sax. The set up that works best for me on my Yamaha TS 280 is Theo Wanne Gaia 1 6* mouthpiece with Silverstein Quattro Lig and SIlverstein Ambipoly Jazz 2 reeds. Usually I’m very happy with that. But every once in a while the sound doesn’t come out as it should and I find myself fiddling about with different mouthpieces, ligs and reeds. So there is a certain attraction in spending €5.50 on something that might make a difference. My experience with the reed performers has not been particularly positive - sometimes it feels as if they make an improvement sometimes not.

Now obviously €5.50 for 3 very small pieces of some kind of sticky tape is mad money - but hey - €5.50 is not so much for a one off purchase - and more’s the point - it’s effectively free if your Thomann order is just below the free delivery threshold. It’s also worth saying that it would difficult enough to make a homemade version by cutting a piece of sticky tape to size and then fixing it to the reed.

Yesterday I had one of those moments when the right sound just wouldn’t come out and the reed just wouldn’t stay in place on a different ligature (a GF). So I tried on one of these - the reed stayed in place and I was blown away by the strength and richness of the sound. I think that, for whatever reason, the topside of the synthetic reed was slippery under the GF lig and the extra bit of thickness and grip that the patch provided made a big difference. Today the difference was less marked - but it’s so hard to compare how you sound today with how you sounded yesterday.

Anyway I didn’t want to take the patch off for the sake of trying comparisons. Which brings me to the reason I can only give these patches 3 out of 5 for quality - they are not really very reusable (although the manufacture claims they are) - if you take them off they crinkle and the edges loose their stickiness. So all in all I don’t know how recommendable they are.
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Very Useful
psychosax 06.01.2022
Really useful product and well worth the price, really helps give a good connection/grip between reed and ligature
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Tubi 22.02.2018
Ich bin über den BG Reed Performer A80L gestolpert als ich mir eine neue Ligatur von BG für mein Tenor gekauft habe! Im letzten Jahr war ich sehr Unzufrieden mit der Qualität meiner Hausmarke Vandoren Blau 2,5! Ich spiele am Tenor ein Kai Siebold Link, Öffnung 8*. Habe dann angefangen mit Legere Signature zu experimentiern! Nachdem ich verschiedene Stärken der Blätter probiert hatte, fehlten mir Höhen und Presenz. Ich habe mir dann die BG L24RJ Otto Link Blattschraube bei Thomann bestellt. Das war erst mal schon eine andere Welt! Für mich immer noch etwas unausgeglichen. Ich habe dann aus Lust und Experimentierfreude einfach mal einen der, der Ligatur beigefügten Klebestreifen auf das Legere aufgeklebt! Das ist für mich, da
ich sehr empfindlich auf Veränderungen reagiere, ein sehr grosser Sprung! Das Plaste Blatt war im gesamten Spektrum , auch Flageoletts, viel homogener und voller in der Ansprache und Sound. Zwischenzeitlich bin ich meinen Plaste Blättern nochmals mit meiner alten Hausmarke fremd gegangen! Dort habe ich die Reed Performer auch probiert! Ich hatte eins von zehn Blätter, die ok waren. Der Rest war Ausschuss! Ich habe nicht gemerkt, dass die Langlebigkeit erhöht war. Bei mir taugt ein Blatt leider nicht länger als eine Woche. Ansprache und Homogenität waren wohl einiges besser. Der Klebestreifen gleicht auf meiner Ligatur auch Ungleichheiten im Andruck aus. Das kann man am Abdruck der Ligature sehen. Da hilft nur Probieren! Mir hat es geholfen.
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