Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2015-11-30 16:59
Welcome, Geronimo! I've also experienced "chirping" with set-ups that were too free-blowing for me. I know that a few jazz musicians use no. 2 or 2-1/2 reeds, but I wonder whether anybody here uses a no. 1 or 1-1/2 reed? Do teachers ever recommend them to young beginners?
I ask because found an unopened package of "plain old Rico" 1-1/2s in a case with a used clarinet I bought at a flea market. Caveat: those reeds weren't new. They may date back decades. But I think that even if those reeds had been new, they wouldn't have worked for me even as a grammar-school beginner. Yipes -- terrible. I wasn't getting mere chirps. I squeaked like a rabid rat.
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Hey, ya, this is Dick Vigorous the 14th or 15th or somepin like that, borrowin Lelia's brain fer a minute. Yeah, I'm a rat, a dirty rat -- what's it to ya, huh? I liked them squeaks. More squeaks! That's what clarinets is good fer. Less of that namby-pamby Mozart. I come inna attic now an then, I don't wanna hear none of that Brahms crap, neither. Gershwin, some of him's okay, that long squealy thing at the start of that wrap-so-dee whatever, but gimme them squeeeeeeks! An tell that cat to go meow off. She don't scare me none.
Dick Vigorous, Boss Rodent
Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
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