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Author: ClarinetRebecca
Date: 2012-12-29 17:18
Hello everyone,
I currently own three mouthpieces and have two clarinets. My three mouthpieces include a Premiere by Hite, Yamaha (for my Yamaha clarinet), and a Bundy (which I have to get a new cork for, it is wiggly.)
My question is, what mouthpieces are your favorite, and if you recognize any of the mouthpieces I named above, how do you like them?
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Author: dperreno
Date: 2012-12-29 21:06
Agreed. And if you play 3.5 or stronger reeds, consider the Hite Artist or the Clark W Fobes Nova as good intermediate to professional mouthpieces. There are also many decent VanDoren mouthpieces, but I think they are a bit pricey for what you get. (Brook Mays has really good prices on mouthpieces)
Doug
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Author: Tobin
Date: 2012-12-29 22:59
Agreed again.
Take the $15 that you'd spend to re-cork the Bundy and apply it to trialing a set of Fobes/Vandoren mouthpieces from a store.
Then use the Bundy mouthpiece as a door stop as it was originally intended!
James
Gnothi Seauton
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Author: Tony F
Date: 2012-12-29 23:12
I sense a bit of mouthpiece snobbery among the replies here :-). The Hite is the pick of the bunch, but don't discount the Yamaha if it's a C4 or C6. They are both perfectly acceptable student mouthpieces and I know some more advanced players who use and prefer them. The Bundy is, as stated, a first class door stop.
Tony F.
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Author: MarlboroughMan
Date: 2012-12-29 23:18
Never throw out a mouthpiece. Seriously--you can always use them to practice refacing technique, etc.
I don't have any experience with the ones you mention, but have boxes filled with handcrafted pro-level mouthpieces. All of them are very nice and served their purpose at the time I bought them.
Right now I play a stock Selmer C85 that sat in my collection for 25 years before it 'worked' for me (it was the mouthpiece that came with the first pro horn I ever bought, at age 14). I'm not saying you'll find that's true about any of yours...but you never know, and like I said, they can be good to have around for experimentation.
Eric
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The Jazz Clarinet
http://thejazzclarinet.blogspot.com/
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Author: knotty
Date: 2012-12-29 23:19
Oh no, I wouldn't throw the Yamaha C4, I like it as much as my Lyre.
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2012-12-30 02:37
Ok, I was being a bit snippy. But I have NEVER had any luck with the Yamahas, and I say this as one who LOVES their clarinets.
There are some good "not-too-expensive" options out there such as the Vandorens (M13, 5RV Lyre, M15 for example) but there is nothing wrong with the Hite Premiere at all. The others in the three mentioned can be out performed by almost any other "professional" grade available.
.............Paul Aviles
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2012-12-30 07:05
If your Bundy piece is a hard rubber "Signature" mouthpiece, don't throw it away, these are actually quite good pieces that could do with a bit of refacing. The plastic pieces - stamped with plain "Bundy" are not that exciting, however.
(I have one each for my soprano, alto and bass, and the bass one is actually excellent as is, the alto has been refaced by David Spiegelthal and it sings, and the soprano - of a newer vintage - isn't all that bad although it needs some airing as it still faintly smells of burned rubber. Will see what I'll do with that one)
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Ben
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Author: Maria P
Date: 2012-12-31 00:28
I don't have any of the three you mentioned - but after trying a few, I've settled on a Selmer C85 120, used with '3' strength reeds.
I couldn't use the stock mouthpiece that came with my Yamaha 450, and also tried a Vandoren B40 but didn't get on with it either.
Maria
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