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Re: Mouthpiece tone production percentage

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2014-08-20 00:23

I get "put down" all the time. It's the internet.

My "knee jerk" negative reaction to the question is based on my assumption that one may go off and buy a highly touted mouthpiece, and feel that they have all that one needs to be a great player.

There are indeed even blatant mismatches of mouthpiece "A" with clarinet "B." I was trying to resolve a recent issue with German mouthpieces on French clarinets and opened up a worm hole to a massive physics quandary that I didn't even see coming (with 40 years experience under my belt.....oy).

I have been able to observe great players switch out equipment left and right (different mouthpieces, different clarinets, different reeds, everything) and still sound like themselves. Yes, there are some pieces of equipment that imbue the general sound with a 'characteristic' here or there, but it IS the player that makes the sound.

Mouthpieces are a personal choice, based on HOW your blow, how you form your embouchure, how you tongue. A certain mouthpiece may allow one person to articulate more cleanly than another mouthpiece, but a good clarinetist can get just about any mouthpiece to sound great if he/she is willing to live with the compromises that would normally dictate otherwise (whatever those might be). By extension you can say the same for the rest of the equipment in the system. And Tony probably gave the best answer about this. Put in another way you can say that the component parts of the clarinet are like a chain. It will only be as strong as its weakest link (but that doesn't make all the other links 'better' with regard to the ultimate fate of the chain).

.............Paul Aviles

Post Edited (2014-08-20 01:28)

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