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Re: New mouthpiece suggestions

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2014-11-23 21:03

I would personally categorize the B45 as being the most open "usable" facing for standard classical clarinet playing. You can make it work but the more open you go, the more YOU need to control pitch and timbre from note-to-note, register-to-register in real time. And that just could mean an unnecessary amount of work for the same product on a more closed facing.

I have run into a lot of stores and school systems that recommend the B45 mouthpiece for early students and I find it rather appalling. The 5RV Lyre or M13 should be the 'standard' and you either move from there depending on your developing preferences or settle into it for the next 20 years (there really is no pressing need for any other facing or mouthpiece for standard classical clarinet in my opinion).

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

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