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Re: Vandoren's date for introduction of 442 MP's ?

Author: seabreeze
Date: 2018-10-10 03:21

Nathan, I think you hit the nail on the head. One of my early clarinet models was Louis Cahuzac, and I tried hard to emulate his sound on a batch of Vandoren Diamond Perfecta 5RVs, reputedly the mouthpiece he played on some of his later recordings. But to my dismay I sounded nothing like him on recorded playbacks. Come to think of it, I never heard anyone sound much like Cahuzac when they played a Diamond Perfecta. Of course I can never exactly match Cahuzac's sound on anything but the closet I've come is on a Vandoren M13 lyre or some regular M13s. I had similar results trying to approximate Mitchell Lurie on a Lurie mouthpiece. No way! But on a Fobes San Francisco or some of Brad Behns, I come a lot closer. I'm sure this is true for most people. We have oral cavities, teeth and jaw arrangements, tongue length and thickness and many other factors in our physical make-up that are bound to differ from those of our sound idols. We may not be able to "fill" and resonate a mouthpiece they find easy to fill. Or we may overblow one they find easy to finesse and control. The means players use cannot be identical even when they are aiming for the same result.

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