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Re: Mouthpieces and reeds by the numbers

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2017-08-11 05:19

rtaylor wrote:

> If any of you know what well known players used that would
> fantastic.
>
> Harold Wright for example. If anyone knows those "numbers"
> please chime in.

I don't know that that information would be of much help. Reed strengths have changed since the days of Wright, Marcellus et al. When I started studying with him, Gigliotti and pretty much everyone else I knew in the Philadelphia clarinet world used Vandoren #5s on their close-tipped Chedeville-style mouthpieces. Many of those #5s played out of the box with slight balancing. Now #5 Vandorens are like blanks - the need major work. From the one lesson I took with him in Washington I think Wright used the same kind of setup.

I don't think that today I'd recommend that anyone try #5 of any current reed model (although I certainly haven't tried all of them) as a first try on any mouthpiece.

Karl

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