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5RV 13 Issues

Author: sgb2007
Date: 2006-06-21 21:32

I have a Vandoren 5RV 13 mouthpiece that I purchased about a year ago. I am absolutely in love with the change in tone it gives me, but only about a month after I purchased it, I found that I encounter sporadic high-pitched squeaks when I tongue almost any notes above the middle C with a hard articulation (e.g., staccato). It is not an ordinary reed squeak, however, and I have become desperate especially recently to resolve the problem because I want to resume using that mouthpiece. Since I started having the problems, I have been playing on a Leblanc/Woodwind Co. mouthpiece that works fine but gets nowhere near the beautiful tone I get from the Vandoren mouthpiece.

Current set-up: Leblanc Noblet 40 clarinet, Vandoren V12 reeds, WW Co. K45 (I think?) mouthpiece to replace the Vandoren mouthpiece.

Any ideas would be highly appreciated.

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