Klarinet Archive - Posting 000884.txt from 1999/10

From: Shouryu Nohe <jnohe@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Bb Soprano to Bass Clarinet
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 03:45:18 -0400

On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Dodgshun family wrote:

> First up, congratulations for making it into the band! I've recently done a
> whole lot of work on my bass playing with my teacher, so I'll try and
> remember the most important stuff she's told me. What type of mouthpiece is
> with the bass? I play a LeBlanc bass (don't know the model, but it's a low
> C instrument :) ) with a Pomarico 2 crystal mouthpiece. As far as I know,
> very few people use crystals on bass.

I actually use one, at the moment, being unable to use the school's Morgan
(since I'm hardly playing bass anymore, the principal in Sym. Winds gets
it.)

My crystal is a Vandoren A2 or A3 (my memory is bad in the morning, eh?)
and it's good, with average volume. More importantly, it plays better
than the Hite I started with (which was a fine mouthpiece in itself,
better than most stock bass mpcs), but still not quite as good as the
Morgan D, which I find has a MUCH richer, deeper tone. Not to mention
TONS OF VOLUME POTENTIAL.

(It was also with the Morgan that I learned to overblow my throat tones
into altissimo. ^_^)

Having been the only crystal mouthpiece on bass I've played, I find it
hard to make a real comparison - I can only say "good, but not the best",
at least for me.

J. Shouryu Nohe
http://web.nmsu.edu/~jnohe
Professor of SCSM102, New Mexico State Univ.
"If I wanted a 'job,' I'd have gone music ED, thank you very much!"

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