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Author: TomD
Date: 2006-08-07 13:01
I am considering trying the Vandoren M30 mouthpiece. I play mostly classical and am currently using a B40. Can anyone comment on the M30?
Thanks
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Author: Ralph G
Date: 2006-08-07 13:13
It works well for me. The long facing helps me get a fuller sound. I have to work a little harder on the tuning than I do with my Greg Smith Kaspar, but it's nothing I can't handle. Try one for yourself.
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Author: Bob Phillips
Date: 2006-08-07 14:48
While you're searching:
The M30 can sound great and be pretty responsive. It seems to work best with Vandoren V12 reeds --about a 3.5.
The long lay is troublesome --you need to take a whole lot of mpc into your mouth. If you let it relax and slip out, you'll have trouble getting into the alitissimo.
Try taking more and more mouthpiece until the horn squeaks on an open G. That shows where you should have your lower lip on the reed. NOW, learn to play the thing with all reed in your mouth. You'll probably learn to like it.
I've been on mine for 11-months and still revert to my old short lay position and finger alti notes that won't speak.
For a street price of $50 or so, its a good deal.
Bob Phillips
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Author: TomD
Date: 2006-08-07 15:07
Thanks Bob. Just curious, with taking that much mouthpiece, can you still get a clean, crisp, quick staccatto?
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Author: DAVE
Date: 2006-08-07 17:13
For me the M30 is the best mouthpiece they make. This business about taking in so much mouthpiece is puzzling to me. I take no more or less on this piece than any other. The lay on this piece is not that much longer than many of the available pieces excepting the many handmade pieces that have VERY short facings.
I think the mouthpiece produces a full and colorful sound that rivals anything I have ever played. I have no trouble articulating on this mouthpiece. In comparison to the B40, I would say the mp plays with a less tubby sound and for me is easier to control.
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Author: maleah
Date: 2006-08-07 20:56
I used the B40 for years because my instructor is convinced that it's the best mass-produced (i.e., reasonably cheap) mouthpiece. I still like the B40, but I bought an M30 several months ago and now prefer it over the B40. Articulation is easier with the M30 for me.
I use the Vandoren 56 Rue Lepic reeds for both: strength 3 with the B40 and 3.5+ with the M30.
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Author: Bob Phillips
Date: 2006-08-08 00:55
My stacatto with the M30 is no different than it is with my other mouthpieces.
I'll stand by my experience with the M30 REQUIRING a bigger bite than my other mouthpieces --compared, for example, to a Mitchell Lurie M3. If I let the 'piece slip out of my mouth, the high altissimo goes away.
Over the rest of the clarinet's range, it matters not.
The extra mouthpiece insertion amounts to maybe 4-mm, but makes a live-or-die difference.
Bob Phillips
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