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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2014-05-03 13:30
I hear there are a fair number of orchestral players having good luck with the Vandoren M30 used with 3.5 Vandoren V12s. There is even one of them in the Vandoren TV offerings playing this very combination and sounding great. I'm more of an 5RV Lyre or M13, using a strength 4 reed guy, but the ultimate test is you. No one can determine someone else's preference for a set-up. Ultimately you should be able to find SOMETHING amongst the wide variety of offerings from Vandoren.
..............Paul Aviles
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Author: TomS
Date: 2014-05-03 18:49
If you don't try anything else, be sure to live with the Vandoren M30-lyre for a while. Give it a week.
Exceptional sound for me with Legere reeds. Compact, flexible, round and responsive. Easy to control. Won't "peal the paint off the walls" like my C85-120, but not bad in projection ...
In the Community Band, I've had to go with a timbre that cuts through the ocean of unchecked saxophones, baritones and trombones ... therefore the Selmer.
M30-lyre just one of many great MPs ... I hate too many choices!
Tom
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Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2014-05-03 22:37
I'm willing to bet that there are 50 different mouthpiece that are used by professional players around the world and each of them feels that's the best mouthpiece ever. You just have to try as many as you can to see what fits you the best, everyone is different. In my 51 year professional career I changed clarinet mouthpieces about 6 times using any of them for 2 to 20 years. My present is in it's 20th year now. The reasons I changed were because I was always looking for something even better that what I was using. Only twice did I break one, once it droped at a rehearsal and once my dog thought it must have looked like a bone.
ESP eddiesclarinet.com
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Author: sfalexi
Date: 2014-05-04 00:20
Personally, I'd work hard to change my habits to not lose or damage my mouthpiece.
BUT....
If you must go 'replaceable', depending on how much money you consider 'replaceable', I'd say the vandoren M-series all will work well, the new Rico Reserve will work well, and if you REALLY want something easily replaced, buy a bunch of Fobes Debut mouthpieces (I just ordered ten for our band so if anyone ever arrives and needs a quick workable mouthpiece, there'll be one). You can buy ten debut mouthpieces for slightly more than one handfaced.
But once again, personally, I'd take the handfaced and work hard on changing my care habits.
Alexi
US Army Japan Band
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Author: Ed
Date: 2014-05-04 00:46
Ed makes great points. You have to see what is best for you. Of those you mention, my personal taste leans toward the M13lyre, but that is me.
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Author: ThatPerfectReed
Date: 2014-05-04 01:38
Paul mentioned the M30, but I'd like to put a German spin on it.
Pascual Martinez and Jon Manasse, as well as I (as if I'm in their league!!) play an M30D. "D' as in Deutsche.
It has an incanny ability to take any shrillness off of notes played with the octave key and left hand, and beyond. It will not be your loudest mouthpiece though.
It's designed for both the Boehm and Oehler systems, and will not fit entirely into an American barrel, although this does not affect pitch.
Of course to each his own. And for what it's worth I'm an X10 Rico Reserve mouthpiece fan too--although I find it produces more volume and less of a cover over having a brighter sound: which may or may not be what you're after. Either is an excellent classical play mouthpiece.
Consider buying from a vendor who accepts returns for a restocking fee.
You should listen to Martinez on Youtube, on the VandorenTV channel, as well as Manasse to see if that's the kind of sound you like. I don't mean to imply that these players don't make their own sound, because of course they do. Just that I think the M30D helps towards that sound.
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Author: TomS
Date: 2014-05-04 03:18
Ditto on the Clark Fobes Debut as well. Every time the local music store replenishes their stock on the Debut MPs, I visually go through all of them and pick one with the best looking side and tip rails, and add it to my collection. This happens about twice a year. As a matter of fact, just purchased another one two days ago and I think it's the best one yet! I've sold a few that I thought weren't as good as the rest ... but there is little wrong with this MP in general, and IMHO better than many other brands/models at 3X or more the price. I used one at an outdoor concert the other day and it had plenty of projection in the park ...
Tom
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