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Re: Worst mouthpiece thread

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2009-12-27 19:50

David, the trouble is that most of us will never know if a particular mouthpiece is really "completely unplayable" because as soon as it doesn't play well *for us* most of us put it aside and revert back to one we're used to. Of course, a Goldentone (in your original post) will never play as well as anything any of us currently plays on by choice. But I've had students who played for their first few years on them and got decent results. At some point anyone who is at all serious about playing will have to move on to something better, but even those Goldentones (or the Yamaha C4s that come with the entry level rentals the kids get) can produce a characteristic clarinet sound with the right reed. I don't believe that Buffet back in the mid-20th century was deliberately producing completely unplayable mouthpieces to pack with their R13s and earlier models - SOMEone must have been able to produce an acceptable sound with a correctly matched reed. But as you know, no one in the Philadelphia area would have been caught dead trying to use one - I can't say more than that because my exposure to the clarinet world back then was much too limited to be have known what players anywhere else were doing.

I've had a couple of *damaged* mouthpieces that I'm certain genuinely were unplayable. But this thread seems to show that one player's worst may well be more than acceptable to someone else.

Karl

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