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ugly, stuffy, awful throat tones

Author: clarisax
Date: 2005-02-07 02:58

okay... i am seriously stressing over this right now. Bb is overly stuffy everytime i try and play it. B natural is even stuffy. i have a fairly new buffet festival clarinet and the mouthpiece i use is a morgan rm06 with vandoren v12 size 5 reeds. i know that a size 5 sounds kind of hard to most people but for whatever reason that is the only size that works well on my mouthpiece. anything softer gives me a really honky loud sound that i dont like. i guess i am pleased with this set up and my tone in the high notes and the low notes is supposedly good. the middle notes however are horrible, imo. i didnt realise how bad they sounded until i played my teachers super old buffet from the late 50's at my lesson tonight. with my mouthpiece/barrel/reed/ligature i was able to get probably the best sound i have ever personally produced. nothing was stuffy and the clarinet seemed to really just play itself.

now, ive heard horror stories of bad clarinets that people buy, but i really dont think that is the case with mine since i tried about a dozen of them before i, along with my teacher, settled on this one. it was by far the best one they had ( i also tried numerous r13s).

so do i just settle for this stuffy tone? is there anything i can get done to my clarinet to fix this problem? should i try a whole new mouthpiece and see if that fixes it? maybe one that is more open than my rm06 which is very closed from what i understand. is it possible that my mouthpiece matches her old r13 but not my new festival? that doesnt seem to make a lot of sense to me. any recomendations would help a lot.

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