Klarinet Archive - Posting 000067.txt from 2012/01

From: "Lelia Loban" <lelialoban@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Barrels
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 08:21:45 -0500

Nancy Buckman wrote,
>It has been my experience that the mouthpiece will sometimes make a huge
difference in in pitch on different clarinets. >

I'm an amateur and still emphatically denying that I collect clarinets,
although I do seem to own, er, quite a few of them . . . and yes, I agree
with Nancy that the mouthpiece can affect the pitch. The relative length of
the mouthpiece to the barrel to the upper stack above the topmost keys has
varied considerably over the decades and from one manufacturer to another.
In general, I find that modern mouthpieces are longer than antique or old
vintage mouthpieces, and consequently the newer beaks often make old
clarinets play flat.

Lelia Loban
http://www.scoreexchange.com/search?composer=Loban

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