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Re: Long vent tube in Buffet A

Author: Bob Bernardo
Date: 2017-07-07 17:48

Sometimes you can close the octave key a bit. It's often too open and this can help that GRUNT. The octave key is pretty much always too open.

As a mouthpiece maker if the baffle isn't correct this also can add to a GRUNT. This is pretty much on the new mouthpieces, not the older ones. Also the bores on the newer mouthpieces are actually smaller while the clarinet bores are bigger. Lastly, we have very close mouthpiece tips such as around 1.01mm's. All of this adds to extreme resistance, thus a GRUNT! Some players are now going the other way. Playing on tip openings of 1.20mm's and very hard reeds. This surely helps get rid of the problem.

So with the wrong tapered baffle on a mouthpiece plus the vent tube, yes the Grunt the Thug can be enhanced.

The answers are to let these companies know that they've gone just a shade too far.

Buffet is smart. They dumped the Divine. Yamaha keeps adding new great horns every year.

I've tried differ reed tip thicknesses and it seems that thicker reed tips also make things worse.

Designer of - Vintage 1940 Cicero Mouthpieces and the La Vecchia mouthpieces

Yamaha Artist 2015

Post Edited (2017-12-16 07:26)

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