Klarinet Archive - Posting 000053.txt from 2001/06

From: rgarrett@-----.edu
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Vandoren 5 RV Mouthpieces
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 00:30:59 -0400

At 08:34 PM 06/01/2001 -0600, you wrote:
>As many people have said on this list, everybody can't play on the same
>mouthpiece, or "You should be careful about how you speak to your fellow
>clarinetists when recommending a mouthpiece, because one clarinetist's
>sushi can be another's fishbait" (quotation by my favorite entertainer,
>the Reverend Billy C. Wirtz

Good advice. Worse advice is to switch mouthpieces for whatever works that
day. As a teacher and a performer, I would recommend that a person learn
to play on the one mouthpiece that allows for the best of everything and
learn to control it - rather than switch to one for control and then switch
to another for volume. It makes no sense at all to do this. The exception
is classic vs. jazz perhaps.

I know this sounds dogmatic - but it is also realistic.

Best wishes,
Roger Garrett

Roger Garrett
Clarinet Professor
Director, Symphonic Winds
Illinois Wesleyan University
School of Music
Bloomington, IL 61702-2900
Phone: (309) 556-3268
Fax: (309) 556-3121

"A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes
another's."
Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825)

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