Klarinet Archive - Posting 000499.txt from 2000/10

From: GSmithClarinet@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] Mouthpieces - long post
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 08:38:20 -0400

In a message dated 10/10/2000 3:43:37 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
rgarrett@-----.edu writes:

<<While I agree that a player should not be hampered by their equipment when
they play, I was not saying that learning to play a Pyne mouthpiece would
hamper a person's playing.>>

Yes. I believe that this is what you were saying.

<< What I am NOT saying is that everyone should buy a mouthpiece that has an
asymetrical facing so that they can learn how to blow correctly on the
clarinet. But with some, it takes that experience to know how to. They
become better players and musicians by doing so, and they then are free to
express themselves musically. >>

Using a resistant mouthpiece as a method to help some to use air efficiently
or properly doesn't seem to me the way I would approach solving this type of
problem.

<<wouldn't be able to perform in the opera with that mouthpiece - because it
would wear him out. He felt that the smaller tip opening would allow him
to play "all day" and "all week" without an endurance problem. His
reasoning - in order to get the sound he wanted, he would have to really
grip the mouthpiece with his embouchure - something he didn't want to do.>>

I agree to the extent that even as a practical matter, I wouldn't make it
past the first half page of the Brahms 1st in the orchestra with this style
of mouthpiece - and believe from experience that it would be harmful to my
playing to learn to do so.

<<like what they experience on a mouthpiece with an asymetrical
facing (and the Pyne mouthpiece was the example), than that should be
strong evidence to support that there are very good reasons for considering
a mouthpiece like this.>>

I assume that you mean asymmetrical *and* very open as you mentioned before.

<<do not view my comments as somehow insulting to Bonade, Marcellus, Maclane,
McGinnis, and Wright<<

I don't see how it is possible.
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Above are some of the ideas, I believe, on which we do part company.

Perhaps it is true that one can probably accommodate playing allot of
different things in different ways. I suppose my general question is,
rhetorically speaking, where does one draw the line in ones own best interest
about how far they - in practical terms - need to go?

Gregory Smith

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