Klarinet Archive - Posting 000326.txt from 1998/11

From: Shouryu Nohe <jnohe@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] doubling
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 02:24:26 -0500

On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Edward Evans wrote:

> For those of you who double, I'm curious about the jazz metal mouthpieces.
> They seem narrower, so do you use a softer reed or a harder reed??

The width of the mpc does virtually nothing to change what kind of reed
you use, IMO. It's the facing, mainly. Metal mpcs tend to be more open,
you you generally use a bit softer reed (unless you have a really strong
emb. and you need serious power).

The mouthpiece width is not always slimmer - Yannis and Brilharts are
notably slimmer, but Links and Meyers (which are most common in this part
of the country) are about the same as rubber mpcs. No matter how wide the
mpc, though, the facing is still the correct width for the reed...My
Brilhart metal tenor is exactly the same width as my reeds, AMAF...

J. Shouryu Nohe
http://web.nmsu.edu/~jnohe
Professor of SCSM102, New Mexico State Univ.
One of Key's 30,000 Friends
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