Klarinet Archive - Posting 000006.txt from 2004/09

From: "Ken Wolman" <kwolman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Stock mouthpieces (was re: selecting a Clarinet)
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 12:07:58 -0400

Curtis Bennett wrote:

> Interestingly enough, the lady that sold me the B45, said it was the best one
> she had, so I'm not sure how she knew that particularly, or whether she was just
> feeding me a line. But, even my wife who is admittedly tone deaf went "WOW!"
> when she heard me play the Gigliotti and then play the Vandoren.

Again, I've heard B45's raved about. I bought mine because I heard it
mentioned as THE orchestral/chamber/jazz/reggae/hiphop standard, etc.
My PERSONAL (based on recent history, can we keep that word in memory?)
experience with anything, musical or not, that is supposed to do a lot
of things equally well is that it does very little particularly well.

Or you may have gotten a really good B45 because, again, there seem to
be variations even within a production run. Everyone has heard of
people going out to buy a clarinet who try a whole bunch of the same
model even if they are factory-new, because they aren't precisely alike.
Why not the same for mouthpieces, boxes of reeds, or reeds without one
box?

K

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