Author: robertnsmith
Date: 2015-01-09 23:20
I, for some reason, am unable to see the pictures. However, I had a similar issue playing an M13 lyre as a backup to my Walter Grabner K11*. The issue for me was that the M13 lyre needed a reed with a bit thicker tip that the Grabner. This led me to two conclusions.
1) don't concentrate as much on the amount of mouthpiece but concentrate on not biting. Contrary to what most clarinetists think, I normally think of my mouth in more of an "O" formation to remedy biting the reed. This helps considerably with the M13 lyre as it is already a close-facing mouthpiece and the reed could basically be closing off at the tip keeping you from rapid fire articulation.
2) I personally found that the M13 lyre just wasn't the mouthpiece for me. As someone who played the M13 lyre for much of my education (all through high school and college) I always felt I had to work too hard to get it to do what I wanted. I didn't feel that there was enough of a dynamic range and I also always had an issue with what seemed to be a scoop at the beginning of notes in the upper clarion. This was the most troubling issue of all.
After an attempted diagnosis, I decided to switch to a similarly faced mouthpiece by Walter Gabner - BAM, problem solved, no more scoop with little to no change in what I was doing.
That being said, try the "O" technique or try a reed that has a little more wood in the tip and see if that remedies it. if the reed with a firmer tip remedies it, there's a chance you might be biting. If that doesn't help, I might suggest trying a slightly different mouthpiece such as an M15. While many people believe the M13 lyre is a great mouthpiece, which it undoubtedly is, it doesn't work for everyone!
- Robert
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