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Re: Vandoren M14- the rarest of the rare

Author: D Dow
Date: 2010-01-18 17:06

Interesting set of posts here, for 10 years I experiment with Vandoren facings while playing a Hite D professionally..

during a ten year interval I started experimenting using M13s in the late 90s with a varied degree of success. The sound was warm and deep but seemed to lack bite and overtones.

Then the M14 came out in the late 90s or was is it in the early part of 2000? On this piece I liked the sound but felt it lack flexibilty in the large intervals and I gave it to a student who sounded better than me on it.

For me the M14 seemed to lack defintition in the chalumeau and was not as good as the M13 to me, so I decided to go with a M13 lyre which was decent but tuning seemed tricky. (flattish)

During this whole period I stayed with my Hite pieces ( all D facings). But in the early part of 2005 I started in on the M15s after a summer of using it...

to me m15s are a great compromise between brilliance and depth of sound. The tone is generous and rich and is malleable enough to be loud and soft without taxing me. for me . M30s seem too low to me, and string players notice this more than I do...however, m30s do have an operative harmonic apparent from listening that does lower the pitch.

David Dow

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