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Re: M13L VS BD5

Author: Bob Bernardo
Date: 2018-03-27 14:23

Don't like either. They tune to 440, then in the upper registers they both go flat, down to 438 or so. YUK! The mouthpieces are too long.

You are also dealing with a huge difference is the sound quality, plus the wide tip openings. So why buy either?

You can opt to but the BD5 that tunes to 442 but it is a brighter sounding mouthpiece, OK for orchestra work, not for solo work.

I just don't like these on Buffet clarinets. Horrible. I've been making mouthpieces since the early 1980's and Vandoren has shoved these out of tune mouthpieces at us for years. It's time to stop. Most major orchestras tune higher than 440 so Vandoren has done us a great disservice, wrecking the preferred sound quality of the 21st century. Same with the Zinner mouthpieces.

So if you play on Vandorens plan of using shorter barrels and then having to have your horns re-tuned.

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

Yamaha Artist 2015

Post Edited (2018-03-27 15:18)

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