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What and where next?

Author: dilettante
Date: 2013-03-21 23:10

Hi,

I played clarinet when I was younger, and had to stop when I got out of college and had no place to play anymore. I took it up again last year (after a 17 year break), with a private instructor, and now also play in a local community band. With the instructor, I've been working on Wilson Osborne's Rhapsody for clarinet (slowly on this one), which I don't much care for musically but has almost certainly helped rebuild (and improve) my playing, the Rose Etudes, and a few pieces from the Benny Goodman clarinet book. My instructor thinks we should probably start looking for the next things to work on, but neither of us really knows what to try. Does anyone have any suggestions? I've enjoyed the Goodman, although I'm not much of a jazz person in general and I tend to avoid the pieces that go into the stratosphere in the altissimo.

Also, I'm wondering about switching mouthpieces to see if I would like a different one better, although I don't have any real problems with the one I have now. I have an HS* with a Rovner dark ligature on a Selmer Signet horn (I actually have several a resonite, a 100, and a Soloist, for stupid reasons). I prefer a kind of textured, dark sound to the slick bright sound you sometimes hear, but I don't know what to do to improve my chances of developing that. I've been thinking of trying a Ridenour Encore mouthpiece or a Vandoren M13, but am not sure how much difference either of those would actually make.

Thanks in advance for any pointers or suggestions, and thanks for all the discussions you've had before. I've been lurking here and searching old questions as I've needed information in the past, and have found it tremendously useful.

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