Klarinet Archive - Posting 000230.txt from 2009/03

From: "MICHAEL MARMER LINDA MARMER" <mlmarmer@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Sqeaking
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:40:54 -0400

Tim,

Thanks for the great advice, as I got allot of it from many.

The mouthpiece is the same I used in High School, as I used 4 and 5 Mitchell
Lurie, sometimes La Voz, but mostly ML.

Again, I had a teacher who was first chair with a orchestra in Washington
DC, not the National, but maybe a ballet orchestra.

The problem has gone away, since I started to soak them completely. Never
did this before, as the teacher did use the clipper and reed rush on them,
so he worked them over each week.

Things have been working very well now.

Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Roberts" <timr@-----.com>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 12:19 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] Sqeaking

> On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:03:05 -0400, "Michael and Linda Marmer"
> <mlmarmer@-----.com> wrote:
>> Thank you Michael, as yes, I just went to a 4 Mitchell Lurie reed,
>> because I
>> used 4 and 5 for so long as a teenager. Never had this problem.
>>
>> I will go down to a 3 as I did not have this problem with 2.5 I was using
>> this year.
>>
>
> Since it has not already been said, allow me to point out that
> experience and embouchure are not the primary factors that determine
> which strength of reed you should be using (although they certainly are
> contributing factors).
>
> Each mouthpiece is designed to work properly with a relatively narrow
> range of reed strengths. A relatively open curve (with a wide gap at
> the reed tip) needs a softer reed. A relatively closed curve (with a
> narrow gap at the reed tip) needs a harder reed. If you are using
> different equipment now than you did as a teenager, your experience
> there does not apply.
>
> Continuing my bad habit of overgeneralizing, it would be rare to find a
> single mouthpiece that gives adequate service with both a 2.5 reed and a
> 5 reed.
>
> --
> Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
>
>
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