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Re: M13L VS BD5

Author: seabreeze
Date: 2018-04-02 22:16

I know of more than one classical player who switches from their usual M13 lyre close facing to an open B40 for the opening solo of Rhapsody in Blue. The glissando and the jazz effect are just easier to do on the B40, but for the Schubert Unfinished Symphony, it's back to the M13 lyre. Then, there are other very fine players, such as Olivier Patey and Nicholas Baldeyrou, who find the B40 flexible enough to be their main mouthpiece for many styles of playing.

The Vandoren BD5 recycles the name "Diamond" but plays very differently from the old Vandoren Diamond Perfecta. The BD5 has much thicker side and tip rails and dampens the upper partials in the sound much more than the old Diamond Perfecta. And the Perfecta was produced on a type of rubber blank that gave off a characteristic "mothball" odor when rubbed hard or worked with refacing tools. The BD5 is not made on that kind of blank.

When Pascal Moragues switched to the BD5, he had been playing an Austrian mouthpiece made by Nick Kuckmeier. To me, the BD5 plays rather like a lighter version of the Kuckmeier PlayEasy and Soloist models--with resistance and cover to the sound, and a muted, non-raspy high register.

Post Edited (2018-04-03 00:11)

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