Klarinet Archive - Posting 000464.txt from 1997/02

From: Denise Gulliver-Lewis <pmflewis@-----.net>
Subj: Re: re C85
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 23:01:04 -0500

> Not to open the old "what mouthpiece do you use" conversation, but I've
> been using the Selmer C85 (120) for about 7 years now and love them.<snip>
> They are too much to handle for your average high school
> student, so I have pretty much ruled out the band director avenue.

Wait - Wait!! I'm a beginner and I'm playing on a C85 (115)
because it happens to be the one my kid doesn't like!! The
only problem I'm having with it (as a beginner) is that the
"sweet spot" for my lips is very narrow (compared to the B45
Lyre that my teacher had me try) and the volume I can get out
of it is not as great as the B45. Of course, my tone is
currently ... very, very bad ;^( but my teacher sounds fine
on it. Therefore I'd probably have to disagree with your
surmise that a high schooler couldn't handle it.
--
Mark Charette "How can you be in two places at once"
charette@-----.com when you're really nowhere at all?"
http://sneezy.mika.com/clarinet - Firesign Theater

Mark:

Hey, there IS someone out there!
The difference could be that you are using the 115. My 120 has a tip
opening of about 123, and rails the size of the great beyond. My HS
students who have tried it had a very difficult time with control. The
115 models I have tried are a much easier animal to handle!