Klarinet Archive - Posting 000532.txt from 2000/01

From: "Karl Krelove" <kkrelove@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Vandoren Mouthpiece
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 20:18:59 -0500

> -----Original Message-----
> From: J. Hobby [mailto:jhobby@-----.net]
> Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2000 7:32 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: RE: [kl] Vandoren Mouthpiece
>
>
> Interestingly, the Vandoren reed doesn't really fit, either! Just took it
> out and looked. There's a fair amount of reed extending over the sides of
> the table bottom. (Not as much as the MLs or the RRs. That's
> what I first
> noticed. Trying to hold everything in place and crank the
> ligature down, I
> twisted too hard and actually split a piece off the side of a RR
> reed.)

Looking at mine, I do notice a slight bit of edge overhanging the table at
the bottom of my M13 Lyre mouthpiece, though it's a trivial amount that I've
never paid attention to, and I've never split a reed over it. You may be
setting your ligature down too far, and certainly, as you said yourself, you
twisted too hard on the ligature screw. Everyone has their own dogma about
how tight to make the screws, but....
Of course, you can always file the heel area a little narrower if it's
really a problem - just don't go beyond where the bark is cut. But I don't
think it will serve anything other than a cosmetic purpose.

>The side rails seem to be covered satisfactorily, without any
> overhang, though.
> (You referenced regular and V12 Vandoren reeds. I assume this is
> a regular,
> since it has no numerical designation, other than the strength of
> the reed.)
>

Well, the V-12's aren't identified on the back either. One indicator is that
if it's 4.5, it's a V-12 because the "traditional" cut reeds don't (I've
never known why) come in 4.5. Also, the line along which the bark is cut at
the end of the vamp is not as sharp or clean on a V-12. The V-12's are, of
course, thicker, but you wouldn't necessarily see that unless you had a
couple of each to compare and knew for sure which was which.

Karl Krelove

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