Author: as9934
Date: 2014-09-19 03:44
My band director finally got some mouthpieces for us to try! Over the next few days i will be posting my impressions of the three mouthpieces i will be trying, a Vandoren b40 lyre 13 series, an m30 13 series and a b45 13 series and comparing them to my 5rv lyre and b45.
B40 lyre (with legere signature 3.25, daddario reserve classic 3, and rico grand concert select thick 3.5 reeds, rovner lig on my e11): This mouthpiece is a nice medium between my b45 and 5rv lyre. With the legere it was easy to control (unlike the b45 or 5rv), homogenous through the registers, and had a good sound. Articulations and scales were crisp without losing tone, and long notes where smooth from low a to the altissimo high f#. The legere also tended to make notes a little flat. The grand concert thicks did not produce the same effects but did bring out the charecteristic buffet ringing sound. These reeds are probably to hard for this mouthpiece. The reserve classics where more akin to the legere but had a deeper richer tone quality but slightly sharper intonation. There was an improvement on the low end with these reeds allowing me to play down to low e with relativley good tuning and tone (excluding the low f which is pretty poor.) I did feel like the mouthpiece was more tiring to play but not harder . Overall Iike this mouthpiece alot and might consider switching sometime soon. 8.75/10
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Wind Ensemble
Buffet E11 clarinet , Vandoren Masters CL6 13 series mouthpiece w/ Pewter M/O Ligature, Vandoren V12 3.5
Yamaha 200ad clarinet, Vandoren B45 mouthpiece, Rovner ligature
Post Edited (2014-09-21 05:40)
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