i've heard before that synthetic reeds work on alto, but stink on tenor. Is this true. What synthetic or non cane reed do you like best for tenor?

if anything, ive have experienced the opposite - the legere tenor reeds are a lot better than the alto reeds. I use legeres for practice at school and wasting time and backups incase all of my concert reeds dont work - which depending on temperature, one of them works sometimes and sometimes doesnt. The fibracells are pretty good too, but you cant horse them around - if you play too hard on them, they go to pieces - literally. I have just trashed a fibracell in a concert to where it was impossible to make and sort of sound on it, other than the one heard when one of your palm keys dont shut. I know a jazzer in town and she said that after a concert on one of hers, there was a hole in it about the size of a pencil eraser.

How does the Legere reed compare to a cane reed other than material? ex. sound, feel, response

If you want a good synthetic get a Hartman reed. To me they play and sound better than ANY cane reed I've ever played, and I've played a lot. I use a Hartman Carbon Toptone on my Sugal Super Gonz II...it's a match made in heaven...tone heaven :)

those are thos carbon fibre jobs arent they? one of thos EXTREMELY expensive reeds? The legeres play with a big full body of sound, but are rather bright and have an almost brassy tone to them. They play really good - I used ot use them for everything, but I started to get a tendency to sound the same on everything and had to get drastic to sound the way I wanted.

Saxman, es it is one of those extremely expensive reeds. Woodwind and Brasswind sells them for about $24, for a single reed, and they're where I get them from. Sounds expensive but in the long run it is much much cheaper. First reason being that you get a consistent reed each time instead of buying a box and throwing out more than half of the bad ones. Second reason being they last FOREVER. One of them is 3 years old and still going strong, and the other is about 2 years old. Both play just as they did when new. However, I think they only work well with certain mouthpieces...works great on my Gonz though

how do you think it would work on a yamaha 4C or a modern larry teal tenor? One reed that lasts over a month is a miracle for me!

the few vandorens that actually work, are going for aobut 3 months each now. (4 of them have lasted a year.) and all show no signs of age.