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Author: HANGARDUDE
Date: 2013-06-06 16:53
Hey there people, recently I have been finding alto clarinet reeds with the hardness between Vandoren Traditional 2 and 3s. Do anyone knows if Vandoren V12 alto clarinet reeds exist?
By the way, I'm actually using these reeds for my German bass mouthpiece.
Josh
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2013-06-06 22:17
You can always try V16 alto sax reeds or any other make of alto sax reed as there's far more choice when it comes to them as opposed to the few brands of alto clarinet specific reeds which are basically the same as alto sax reeds anyway. Likewise with bass clarinet reeds (for Boehm system basses).
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Author: HANGARDUDE
Date: 2013-06-08 07:39
Lelia, I'm curious about that, but what is your desired sound? Jazzy or more a more wooden, natural character?
FYI my German bass mouthpiece uses modified alto clarinet gear.
Josh
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2013-06-08 17:13
I wrote that I use Vandoren V16 reeds on my Selmer alto clarinet with Selmer HS* mouthpiece. Joshua wrote,
>Lelia, I'm curious about that, but what is your desired sound? Jazzy or more a more wooden, natural character?
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I'm an amateur and anything wrong may be totally my fault, nothing to do with the clarinet, but fwiw....
I play mostly classical music on that alto. (It's the Selmer Paris wooden pro model, made in 1979.) I like Vandoren V16s on this mouthpiece because they even out the tone quality all up and down the register, and they give me a tone quality that's close to the tone of a soprano clarinet in Bb or A. With alto clarinet reeds, I get a softer tone that seems more compressed, with fewer partials.
Also, with the sax reeds, on the clarinet's lowest notes, I can play all the way up and down as loudly as I do on a soprano clarinet. With the clarinet reeds I've tried, if I play fortissimo, I can squeak up a 12th (into the clarion) on the lowest chalumeau notes. For some reason I don't have to worry about that with the sax reeds.
This clarinet doesn't have the bad, stuffy or muffled tone many altos get at the bottom of the clarion (mid-staff "long" B, C, D, E), but with the clarinet reeds I've tried, the throat tones from "open" G up to B-flat don't have the power and resonance I'd like -- and I do get that bigger tone with the sax reeds.
Lelia
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