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Re: Vandoren Black Diamond

Author: TomS
Date: 2016-03-22 21:49

Years ago, the Woodwind Company used to advertise their MP material as "Steel Ebonite" ... which implied that is was stronger/harder than regular ebonite ...

BTW, my M30-lyre has cleaner and more uniform articulation than my M13s and 5RV-lyres, both which have a closer facing and narrower tip rails.

I even narrowed the tip rail on one of my M13s, in hope of making it a bit brighter and improvising the articulation. The "improvement" only yielded a thinner quality and left articulation mostly untouched.

So, more to this than just side/tip rail width, it seems. Tricky art and science, left only to the trained and practiced. If you expect to tweak your MPs yourself, expect to screw up a few (dozen) first.

I had correspondence with Mike Lomax and he stated that even while knowing what he was doing, it took him a long time and a lot of practice and mistakes to make what he considered a really,really good MP. We have a retired gentleman in one of the community band in our area (a former full-time pro and a Russianoff student) and he is using a Lomax E3 and sounds fantastic ...

Tom

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