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Re: German System Learning Curve?

Author: Mark Pinner
Date: 2003-04-05 05:38

I do not generally use a German mouthpiece even though I have several and can play on them. For small group playing, which can be anything from modern jazz to polkas, I use a Pomarico 4 which I think is equivalent to a diamond. This allows me to use a very soft reed which gives a little more flexibility and produce a more intense tone. I also find it allows me to use vibrato more tastefully. For military band playing I use a C85 120 with hard reeds. This allows me to sustain for longer in the high register and produce a more legit sound. I have a few German mouthpieces which these days I hardly use. I have a Vandoren VD3 which is nice and prissy and produces a fairly subdued sound. It is a mid ranged lay for this sort of mouthpiece and plays nicely with white master 2 1/2 or 3's. I have a Zinner blank with a Zinner facing hand inscribed S95, green hard rubber. I have the original that came with the Yamaha clarinet I use mostly which is engraved with the same script as the Zinner J90. Both of these are close lays and need at white master 3. These mouthpieces are great for orchestral legit German style but absolutely hopeless for commercial or jazz playing. Horn wise I have two Oehlers. The main horn is a Yamaha 457 20 key and ring model, with left hand G#/Eb which is in their intermediate professional range and is fine for the work I do. It is as tough as hell. My back up is an F.Arthur Uebel 20 key and ring but with an oboe style left hand F which helps because the low Bb forked is stuffy as hell and the chromatic fingering is not always feasible. My simple system collection is varied. I have a fully preserved working orchestral pair of Barret Action Clinton system Boosey & Co 1931. With original serial numbered mouthpiece which takes a German reed. They have German silver lined barrels with sleeves and tenon receivers. Awesome workmanship. I have a Henri Farny Albert and two Baermanns in blackwood one a very early Kohlert circa 1870 and an unmarked Eb with one less key which is Czech because of the mechanics, shepherds crook drill rods, and lack of pin springs. The only Boehm I own is a Selmer N Series A under restoration. Of course I have an Orient Company Eb which is about to become a lamp!

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