Klarinet Archive - Posting 000413.txt from 2004/05

From: "Nicholas Yip" <clarinets21@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Mouthpiece Suggestions
Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 14:22:05 -0400

How much are Grabner's mouthpieces?

Nicholas Yip
Clarinetist and Music Teacher

>From: "Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.net>
>Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
>To: <klarinet@-----.org>
>Subject: RE: [kl] Mouthpiece Suggestions
>Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 09:26:00 -0400
>
>Well, I'll throw Walter Grabner's name into the fray. I've recently bought
>two mouthpieces from him that I like very much. They're very responsive,
>seem to be much more reed friendly than the Gigliottis I'd been using, and
>tune well.
>
>Of course you realize, I know, that EVERYone's mouthpieces are meant to be
>stable across registers, produce a focused, dark, and CLEAR tone, and be
>easy to control. And I'm also sure you realize there's not a magic
>mouthpiece that will make those high altissimo notes pop out all by
>themselves. It's possible that the problem you're having with the Bays
>you've used or tried is more a reed problem than one with the mouthpieces.
>
>Not for you, Bryan, but for the younger students who read this list it
>maybe
>needs to repeated that mouthpieces don't produce clear, "dark," "focused"
>or
>any other kind of tone or response all by themselves. The sound quality
>("character," Dan?) and response are the result of a combination of
>mouthpiece, reed, embouchure, and support before anything even gets to the
>instrument itself.
>
>Karl Krelove
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bryan Crumpler [mailto:crumpletox@-----.com]
> > Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 10:11 PM
> > To: klarinet@-----.org
> > Subject: [kl] Mouthpiece Suggestions
> >
> >
> > I am looking into changing my setup - primarily the mouthpiece -
> > and wanted
> > to sollicit some suggestions as to what to try.
> >
> > I've been playing exclusively on Bays (various facings) for the last 12
> > years and am not really happy with them anymore. They lag on
>articulation
> > and are a little too flexible - i.e. really sensitive to
> > embouchure changes.
> > I tried out 6 of his other models T, H1, and H3 (2 each) a few months
>ago
> > and found them to be rather horrid for playing in the clarino &
>altissimo
> > registers. I don't know if those particular ones happened to be
> > warped, but
> > I sent them all back. I couldn't get notes out above altissimo A
> > to save my
> > life no matter what reeds I tried. I need something a little more stable
> > across registers that generally offers a focused, dark, and CLEAR
> > tone, and
> > something that's a little easier to control.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Bryan
> >
> > http://www.whosthatguy.com
> >
> > Chatten met je online vrienden via MSN Messenger.
>http://messenger.msn.nl/
> >
> >
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