Klarinet Archive - Posting 000200.txt from 2004/07

From: ormondtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: Re: [kl] a question for list members
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 21:51:50 -0400

...the reed, which I began to play about a week ago after a 10-day
break-in and balancing (2-5 minutes playing/day), wasn't very wet the
first time, and so I checked the pitch again after playing it for 15
minutes.

On my favorite mouthpiece, the tuner said 15 cents below D# this time
--- which is 35 cents above when reed was drier.

A Vandoren B45 with the same (fully wetted) reed was 10 cents above D#.
Both mouthpieces give very nearly equal pitches when they're on my
clarinet; but when they're played alone, they're 25 cents apart.

I wonder which mouthpiece is putting up more of a struggle against the
pitch that the rest of my clarinet 'wants'?

A Vandoren 5RV, which I never play, was on-the-needle D#.

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