Author: WhitePlainsDave
Date: 2014-11-20 04:01
Mr. Stan Kelley, I have a humble question of you, utterly absent of judgment.
In your play and rating of reeds, is the ability to reliably hit notes in the double high range personally important to you and factor heavily into how you rate reeds? If so, that's cool; we've all got different playing requirements.
I just ask because I tend to accept that I'm going to find things I like and don't like about most of the reeds I have put into circulation for play. Also, hitting such notes is often not hard for me, even if I have to grab a bit more mouthpiece to do so, and I can universally do it, given a decent reed, on most of my mouthpieces. I seem to favor the Vandoren CL6 right now, and generally play on medium facing mouthpieces (an M15 I like, and M13 I don't.)
I am though expressly claiming that encorporating such notes into some 16th note passage is beyond my skill set, but hitting them, that I can do.
I'm sorry if I'm coming to the dance late here, but have you also investigated embouchure and mouthpiece changes? What fingerings for these notes work best for you or not at all?
I'd love to know if I stuck my mouthpiece on your clarinet and stubborn reed if I too would have problems with such high notes. I'd like to know if you'd have better results with my clarinet and or mouthpiece. I'd like to know how I'd fair on your mouthpiece. I'd like to know what higher strength reeds might do. I'd like to know if you modify your embouchure, something I shy away from doing except on such really high notes, to make them.
My hitting these notes isn't about bragging, but rather using myself as a control for your play on the same equipment.
And I'd like to know all this stuff to see what changes to the person and/or the equipment are in order, if any, if these "perk the dogs ears" notes rank high in importance for you to make.
No judgements.
Dave
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