Klarinet Archive - Posting 000384.txt from 2001/10

From: "Kevin Fay" <kevinfay@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Eb Reeds for Eb mouthpieces
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 12:01:59 -0400

Walt Grabner posted:

<<<I am stubbornly going back to my point that a specific resistance of reed
will match a specific facing.

* * *

Facings are designed for a limited range of reed strength. You can't
play a Rico 2 on a Gigliotti P mouthpiece and get good results, just
like you can't put a Vandoren 5 on a B45. It just won't work, and trying to
make it work is an exercise in futility.>>>

I must humbly disagree . . . I used Vandoren 5s on a B-45 for a number of
years, starting in high school through the first two years of college.
While I have since gone to a much lighter set-up (getting lazy in my old
age, I guess), it worked well enough to get through a bunch of auditions and
get accepted as a performance major at several music schools. Optimal?
Perhaps not -- but certainly it can "work," although perhaps not be *your*
preference.

Some folks like a huge amount of resistance -- Ricardo Morales comes to
mind. For some people, Vandy 5 on a B-45 is the weapon of choice.
Different strokes and all that.

kjf

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