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Re: New Clarinet Question

Author: Windy Dreamer
Date: 2018-10-21 23:10

By flatness I mean lacking depth and broadness of overall tone. I own at least 3 different series Vandoren mouthpieces .Their website describes them as dark and centred.They are opposite of everything I desire in a clarinet. My personal favorite mouthpiece came with ligature and cap for $6.75. it is intended primarily for elementary school children.
I have never studied music and am having trouble grasping music vocabulary. I think the term I should have used to describe flatness is color.
I also own a 1927 A Fontaine Rosewood and a late 1940s Wernitzgrun Albert clarinet . Both of them have their original period mouthpieces. They both satisfy me more than any new wood clarinet that I have tried so far.
Although I now own 4 highly desrable heritage wood clarinets I view them more as held in trust than expendable personal possessions.I play them rarely so as to preserve them for future owners.
Any played clarinet will wear out and or suffer accidental damage. My new wood clarinet desires are rooted in bias for wood and a perceived sense of right to wear out or damage an expendable clarinet that is wholly my own.

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