Klarinet Archive - Posting 000065.txt from 2011/09

From: Tim Roberts <timr@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Klarinet Digest, Vol 19, Issue 17
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:22:49 -0400

Rachel Roessel <gsurosey@-----.com> wrote:
> The new clarinetist in one of the community orchestras I play in has a "Woodwind" mouthpiece on her clarinet. Is it a decent mouthpiece?

I assume that's a store model from Woodwind & Brasswind. They are
stencils -- manufactured by someone else, with the Woodwind logo slapped
on. They are, essentially, "generic" brand -- the kind you get by
default on a student clarinet because they are expected to supply
SOMETHING in that hole.

> We did some experimenting?because her throat tones are so sharp, they show up on a tuner as a flat half-step up (meaning she played throat A, which would show up as a G on a tuner; it registered as a flat G#).

Is the rest of her range sharp as well? She might just need a longer
barrel. It would behoove her, however, to go down to her local music
store and try a half a dozen different mouthpieces to see if one of them
gives her a better experience.

--
Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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