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Re: Buffet's 2020 German Tosca

Author: donald
Date: 2019-06-30 06:03

I have 5 or 6 German mouthpieces (for use with German system clarinets, not just a French mouthpiece from a zinner blank) from a variety of sources- they all fit my main 66mm French barrel except for one. I have a Muncy 65mm barrel that is fractionally smaller in the tenon, and this doesn't fit 3 or 4 of them, so obviously there are other variables that the German tenon size. Oddly enough 3 of these mouthpieces play with perfectly acceptable tuning on a Buffet clarinet, and 2 of them have great tone but the 12ths are 10c to 20c out making them completely unplayable.
One Wurlitzer mouthpiece is fine (and has in fact been played in NZSO) while another (admittedly of older vintage) has the crazy intonation. Take from this what you will, but it's obviously not as simple as "German mouthpieces don't work with Boehm clarinets" - I proclaimed this myself for many years but have been proven wrong.

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