Klarinet Archive - Posting 000344.txt from 1996/07

From: Amanda Jones <u42068@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Setups
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 17:10:22 -0400

>I am currently playing on a pine mouth piece with a Bay Ligature and a
>pine barrel. Before I switched to this set up, I was using the Clark and
>Fobes mouthpiece and barrel ensemble. With this I used 3 12 V-12's.
>With my current set up, the V-12's just don't seem to match. Does anyone
>have a similar set up? Can someone please give me some "good reed
>recommendations"? Maybe I have just got a bad batch of V-12's. What do
>you think?
>
>Shylene
>

The question that eneters my mind is why did you switch to a setup that
appears not to work as well.

Though I play a Pyne mouthpiece with my own reeds, some players find
Olivieri reeds to work well.. How about regular Vandorens?

David Jones