Klarinet Archive - Posting 000060.txt from 2001/06

From: Peter Warner <thestudio@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Vandoren 5 RV Mouthpieces
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 07:11:23 -0400

>
>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.

Hello! I've enjoyed the interesting ebb and flow on a number of your
topics for a couple of weeks now, and at last feel i've something to
offer in return, and in response to Roger Garrett's remarks. I've
played on Boosey and Hawkes 1010 clarinets (haven't seen these
mentioned anywhere!) with a Reg Kell 1010 mouthpiece and usually
Vandoren 2.5 or 3 reeds since I was 16. I'm now 50 and change, and am
told I make a great sound. More importantly, it feels absolutely
perfect in the mouth. As Jack Brymer once said, there's a certain
taste when everything is right. I don't seem to have any problem
adjusting to symphony orchestra, chamber music and wind band, either.

I've played with people who seem to change mouthpieces every few
months, and never succeed in producing a good sound. The only winners
there are the mouthpiece makers! In table tennis, which takes the
other quarter of my life (being an artist being the rest), you so
often see people changing their bat rubbers mid season and wondering
why they're loosing matches. Both in this, and in playing music on a
clarinet, touch is everything, and the moment anything interferes
with it, you and the performance are lost! So I think Roger's advice
very good indeed!

Thanks for all your information and ideas

Best wishes

Peter Warner
Artist
Peter Warners Studio
Hillside Road
Tatsfield
Kent TN16 2NH
England

Phone 01959 577270
Fax 01959 577271

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