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Re: M30 mouth piece

Author: Bob Phillips
Date: 2006-01-26 22:46

I, too have just started playing an M30 V13. Its on a Buffet R ~13 with a Muncy plastic barrel.

I'm doing this because my teacher thinks its a great tool; he plays professionally on one, and has a reputation for a great sound.

I've had the upper register problems, but mine are compounded by trying to break a 40-year habit of half holing the forfinger lift in the altissimo.

The M30 has a really, really, really, long lay (get that, its Loooooonnnnnggggg). It is almost impossible to take to much of the mouthpiece into your mouth!

Try poking the horn into your face until you choke (NO!). Have a look at the mpc/reed from the side and notice where the gap between reed and the lay first separate. Your lower lip needs to rest waaaaaayyyyy down there! Try taking in so much mpc that the horn chirps when you tongue. Then back out just a little to regain control.

Its a battle, but folks who haven't heard me play since I started adapting to the M30 turn around and look to see who's walked in to the hall with a clarinet.

I use a Vandoren V12 3-1/2 on my M30.

Keep us posted, and see my new thread "Yamaha vs Selmer" for how the horn seems to affect the M30/3-1/2 combination.

Bob Phillips

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