Author: zhangray4
Date: 2017-09-10 21:52
The best way to check is to screw it slowly onto the mouthpiece (with reed on, of course) and see if it fits. Check particularly to see if the screw bars are parallel or not. For example, I took my Vandoren M/O ligature off the Vandoren CL5 mouthpiece and screwed it on the M30 clarinet mouthpiece. Worked fine for a long time, but just recently, it broke. I did see that the screw bars weren't really parallel, but I ignored it, thinking that since both the mouthpiece and ligature were made by Vandoren it should be fine. But the newer Vandoren Masters series mouthpieces have a different shape/taper than the traditional Vandoren mouthpieces, like the M30, so I learned the lesson the hard way.
Hope this helps! Wishing you best of luck with the Optimum fitting on your mouthpiece!
-- Ray Zhang
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