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Author: sinkdraiN
Date: 2007-04-16 12:37
Assuming that lower American pitched A=440 mouthpieces (like the 13 series) is a newer trend...I'm wondering if new clarinets are any higher in pitch because of the added wiggle room these different pitched mouthpieces afford.
My Leblanc LL from the 70s seems a little bit lower than the new R13s the rest of my section uses. We all use 13 series Vandorens and some of them go very sharp after everything warms up. This is frustrating to me because when I warm up my LL sits right at A=440-441 but their instruments sit closer to A=442 when their barrels are all the way in and warmed up...and not listening to the strings.
It makes me wonder if, during the 70's, mouthpieces like vandoren had mouthpieces mostly pitched at A=442 and clarinet makers kept pitches slightly on the low side.
If the winds creep up to A=442 (which hate when they do!!!!) it looks like I'm just going to have to join them with a regular series mouthpiece. There is NOTHING worse than being on the lower end of the pitch.
Am I correct in thinking that most mouthpieces were pitched at A=442 during the 60's and 70's and that my LL was designed with an A=442 mouthpiece in mind...not a lower A=440 mouthpiece?
Post Edited (2007-04-16 12:45)
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