Klarinet Archive - Posting 000289.txt from 1997/03

From: Jonathan Cohler <cohler@-----.NET>
Subj: Re: Breathing on the clarinet (and wind instruments in general)
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 1997 18:11:15 -0500

Jaime Love wrote:

>On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Jonathan Cohler wrote:
>
>> This of course relates to efficiency of your setup (and is another reason
>> why the hard/close setups are not as good as soft/open setups). Any white
>> noise you have in your sound is wasted air. Furthermore, you can save
>
>I am getting a lot of "white noise" in playing softly in the lower
>register. What can you recommend, and what does a "hard/close" setup mean?
>
>Thanks,
>Jaime

"Hard/Close" is my own cryptic shorthand for a hard reed and a mouthpiece
with a close facing.

I consider Vandoren V12 4 and harder to be "hard".

I consider any facing with an opening of less than 1.15 mm to be "close".

Hard/Close combinations produce exactly the problem that you are describing.

I recommend the B45 lyre mouthpiece (opening 1.27mm) with Vandoren V12 #3
reeds as the optimal solution of any mouthpiece and reeds that I've ever
tried.

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Jonathan Cohler
cohler@-----.net