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Re: Portnoy on Embouchure

Author: Windy Dreamer
Date: 2018-11-18 19:59

It is encouraging to hear that White likes thin reeds . Most clarinetists look at me as an idiot when I tell them what I have done to reeds and mouthpieces. A number 2 rico tip measures .23 mm in the jaws of my micrometer. My tuned reeds measure .17 . Where the new reed measures .45 mine are .22. At the .82 point mine are .45. I also take a lot out of the upper center of the ramp. There is a rolling mournful effect I like that is produced by bending the upper ramp center into the mpc. I need a thin upper ramp center to produce that effect.
Almost all my clarinets came from thrift stores with damaged mouthpieces. I sand out damaged leading edges until I get a seal then tune a reed or two to the mouthpiece. If I feel the side rails are to curved for me to play my style I sand them down as well.When I measured three of my best hand sanded reeds against a new rico I was shocked to see they were all within .01 to .02 mm of each other. Knowing that means that I can speed up the tuning by roughly sanding to a point close to those measurements.
At first it seemed my reeds would not work with double lip or thin lip embouchure but yesterdays results were promising. Today or tomorrow I hope to buy a new Rico 2 and 3 to try out. I find it hard to believe it is easier to manipulate reeds by lip pressure alone than with flesh crushed above teeth.

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