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Re: Mouthpiece for V12 5 reeds?

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2016-04-06 03:27

Until more recently I use to think that reed strength was ONLY seen in comparison to the facing of mouthpiece you use.

Of late I find that harder reeds just respond slower to a given air speed. Or rather, less of the reed vibrates at all lending itself to a only the higher partials. I guess I want to say the solution is to STOP being enamored with hard reeds.

I have spent the last five months relearning clarinet playing through the prism of the German mouthpiece (very small tip opening; very long lay......similar to what was described by "Seabreeze"). However the standard reed strength that one is supposed to use with a tip opening of 0.83mm open and 24mm long is actually only 2 1/2 !!!!! And the results are amazingly responsive, dynamic and have great depth of sound.

So I would only caution that you may be cutting yourself off from better options by limiting your choice of reed strength.

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

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