Klarinet Archive - Posting 000878.txt from 2001/01

From: "Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] how to choose a mouthpiece?
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 18:18:49 -0500

Ginger,

The "RV" most likely stands for Robert Vandoren. The complete designation is
just a model name. Vandoren mouthpieces are good mass-production
mouthpieces. Many players, even at the professional level, use them. The
differences among models have mostly to do with facing curves, although
there are other internal differences, I think, between the old Vandoren
mouthpieces and the new "Profile 13" series as well as a difference in the
beak shape. Before the M13's came out, 2RVs were among the mouthpieces I
recommended to students.

You'd want to look for a new mouthpiece if the one you're playing on doesn't
let you do what you want to do. The kinds of things you expect a mouthpiece
(and indeed the entire instrument) to help you with depend on your level of
advancement and how well developed your internal concepts are of how a
clarinet should sound and respond. They also depend on the styles of music
you need and want to produce and the kinds of ensemble settings you need to
deal with. In a sense, it becomes a question of which mouthpiece interferes
the least with your ability to realize your own musical concepts.

This doesn't fully answer your question, but shows what kinds of things you
need to consider.

For what it's worth...

Karl

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ginger Calkins [mailto:gicalkin@-----.net]
> Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 5:33 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: [kl] how to choose a mouthpiece?
>
>
> It's the newbie again. I barely resisted the temptation to mush all of
> my questions into one, really long, really hard to answer post. But I do
> have another question.
>
> I play on an old Vandoren 2RV mouthpiece that I got in junior high
> because the band teacher recommended it for me after I chipped the cheap
> one that came with my Wurlitzer plastic clarinet.
>
> What does the "2RV" designation mean?
>
> Is this a "good" mouthpiece?
>
> How does one choose a new mouthpiece? Why would you choose a new
> mouthpiece? This is what I've had for my whole playing life and I'm
> perfectly happy with it, but that might be just because I'm too
> uneducated to know better.
>
> Any thoughts, comments would be helpful.
>
> Ginger Calkins
> Lincoln, NE
>
>
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