Klarinet Archive - Posting 000026.txt from 2008/01

From: "danyel" <rab@-----.de>
Subj: Re: [kl] Mouthpiece Suggestions Please
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 20:38:32 -0500

The Vandoren JB5 is loud, and open Berg Larsons, Charles Bays, Brilharts and
Beechlers are too (I tried everything). Yet I play New Orleans Jazz and I
kept wondering how people like Noone or Bigard managed to float on top of
large, loud, brassy bands, retaining the most beautiful sound imaginable (as
far as I am concerned). Most revival-players used Selmer E and they can be
pretty piercing, but shrill. The solution for me are very Old Selmer (1930s)
or Otto Link Reso Chamber mp's opened up to about 0.95" (almost like my alto
sax piece!), but with a LONG, GENTLY CURVED FACING! They are incredibly
strong (louder than any of the above!!) yet mellow and sweet. Sometimes I
play them with soprano-sax reeds.
In N.O. the Brass Bands used Eb clarinet, never Bb, because "it would give
you a sore lip".

Best wishes,
danyel
www.echoton.de/clar.html

----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Marks" <martymarks@-----.com>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Cc: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 6:02 AM
Subject: Re: [kl] Mouthpiece Suggestions Please

>
> On Tuesday, January 01, 2008, at 08:39PM, "Kevin Fay"
> <kevin.fay.home@-----.net> wrote:
>>I have a rather large collection of clarinet mouthpieces, filling up most
>>of
>>a drawer. I would feel comfortable playing an orchestral concert on at
>>least a half dozen of them.
>>
>>. . . but this is not my immediate need.
>>
>>I also play in a rather an eclectic loosely-organized group whose
>>repertoire
>>changes a great deal depending on what we've been hired to play. For
>>example, last month we played at an Argentine tango festival. Lacking
>>access
>>to bandoneons - and anyone with the ability to play them - we covered the
>>parts with doubled oboes and (in my case) a C clarinet.
>>
>>Last night, we were hired by a local ballroom dance studio to play swing
>>standards, with a dash of Xavier Cugat, finishing well after midnight with
>>a
>>set of 70's and 80's tunes that must have been arranged by Tommy Velour or
>>Nick the Lounge Singer. (John Denver, the Carpenters etc. - even a
>>Velveeta
>>cheese arrangement of The Hustle.) This was a *great* gig - the dancers
>>loved us and we got paid. We were even given champagne along with
>>everyone
>>else to toast the new year.
>>
>>Hi Kevin,
> I did New Years Eve with 9 piece band- five Sax, trumpet, piano, bass. I
> played baritone and lead clarinet on the Miller style arrangements.
> Moonlight Serenade, Perfidia, etc. The loudest mouthpiece I found in my
> drawer was a Vandoren M30. I used a Grand Concert Evolution
> #3 reed. I sat next to the vocalist and we shared a mike. It worked out
> well. Vandoren makes a a very open Jazz mpc. the 5JB. With a soft reed it
> will cut through anything. I can't control that kind of setup. If you
> can that may be the way to go.
>
> Martin
>
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