Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2017-11-28 03:24
When I taught beginners full-time, our rental vendor was supplying Yamaha CL24s with a 4C mouthpiece in the case. Some of them *sounded* passable, others not so much. I tried enough of them to realize that they were the one really inconsistent piece in Yamaha's product line. Some really were unplayable. On the other hand, except for a really exceptional clunker, if you put a soft enough reed on almost anything, a beginner can make it play. They have at the beginning no embouchure strength and in any case no embouchure concept, so they just do what they have to do to make the setup produce a sound.
If you want to try to refine things, to clear up a harsh, rough tone, move between registers smoothly, and articulate cleanly in the clarion register, it can be done on the better 4C specimens, but a better mouthpiece will make life much easier.
Karl
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