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Re: Buffet's 2020 German Tosca

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2019-06-30 07:44

So the mouthpiece thing is more nuanced. My main experience with German mouthpieces is with a potpourri of various facings from Wurlitzer (for the 100Cs), three Hammerschmidts and a so called Zinner Blank. All had tenons that were too big to fit into the Buffets and Yamahas that I had at the time. I did nothing at the time to marry the two different systems together.

Enter Bas DeJong of Viotto mouthpieces about four years ago. His main message to ALL of us is that the German approach to embouchure is simple, easy and way less physical or complicated than what most of us in the States do. So he set out to spread the word that all you have to do is take 1.00mm from the diameter of the German tenon (and shorten the tenon 1.00mm as well) and, voila, you have a German mouthpiece that fits a French clarinet. He encourages folks to try his Viotto mouthpieces modified for French clarinet and pair that with a Vandoren White Master Traditional #2 1/2 reed for an easy to play, great sounding experience. As Bas would say you just put it in your mouth and blow!!

I spent about two years experimenting with this concept initially on the Viotto N1 then with some of my still existing Wurlitzers using a modified barrel. What happened for me was that though the German mouthpieces do "work" with French clarinets with some modifications, there are more accommodations for pitch than what I find practical - particularly in the altissimo.

Perhaps I would recommend the experience in terms of training. You can try this for a few years as I have and then find a Boehm mouthpiece that gives you the closest experience to that........great sound and response with very little effort.

................Paul Aviles

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