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Using mouthpieces on Buffet DG clarinet

Author: Jackie
Date: 2006-03-26 16:10

Hallo I have been playing on Buffet DG clarinets using a Vandoren B40.
Although the tuning is okish it is still a compromise -throat notes a bit flatter than I would like. Have experimented with shorter barrels but wondered if the answer is to use a Buffet mouthpiece - if there is such a thing as a decent Buffet mouthpiece?? Any thoughts - hate being out of tune!

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Re: Using mouthpieces on Buffet DG clarinet

Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2006-03-26 19:38

Jackie -

Buffet's stock mouthpieces have been practically unplayable since the R-13 was introduced. However, some of them were made with second-level Chedeville blanks. See for example http://test.woodwind.org/Databases/Klarinet/2004/01/000786.txt and http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?f=1&i=56091&t=56050.

I have one of these, which Kalman Opperman made into a really excellent mouthpiece. However, he said it took extensive reworking. I think it plays at the same pitch as other mouthpieces.

Gigliotti mouthpieces are available nominally pitched at A 442 as well as 440. You might try one of them.

Another possibility is to have a barrel maker make a shorter barrel, with equivalent changes in the taper.

Walter Grabner might be willing to work on your Buffet stock mouthpiece, or make you one of his own that plays higher. I think Roger Garrett also works on mouthpieces you supply. http://www.iwu.edu/~rgarrett/mouthpiece_info.html

Incidentally, François Kloc has written that the DG is the same instrument as the Festival.

Good luck.

Ken Shaw

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