Author: Connor
Date: 2010-09-11 14:54
It never hurts to play on a bass mouthpiece made by the same mouthpiece tech as your Bb mouthpiece.
I have found Clark Fobes, Selmer C*, Brad Behn and Vandoren B-45 all to play very well on bass. I personally play on a Behn Vintage bass mouthpiece.
A Bonade ligature is a great place to start.
Reeds, of course, are different for every one. I don't know of any double file cut bass reeds. I play on blue box vandorens, but it seems to take awhile before they are broken in and stable. Be careful not to play on reeds that are hard, especially as you are still getting familiar with the bass clarinet, it is a different animal. It is nice to have a resistant reed when you need to play loud, but for those delicate entrances with the bassoons........ is it worth the misery of a bad sound or a squak to prove your heroism for playing on a #4?
Connor O'Meara
MM. Clarinet Performance University of Texas at Austin (2012).
BM. Clarinet Performance University of Northern Colorado (2010).
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