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Re: Same embouchure for different facings?

Author: Bob Bernardo
Date: 2019-11-28 07:36

I feel it takes a few weeks or so to adjust to a new setup. Your ear is often key to hearing how you sound at different positions of your embouchure related to all of the registers of the clarinets and saxes. Some players play with a double lip or a single lip and sometimes switch around. Each setting is or can be a bit different.

There are other factors too, such as articulation to reed strengths.

So your answer should be to test out the mouthpieces for a few days, mainly for comfort.

I'm not happy with this extra long facing on the Selmer Concept Eb clarinet. 38 to 40 should often be the longest on the brand gauge. IMO, Selmer makes a very decent mouthpiece but they need help with facings. The mouthpiece is too small to accept this long of a facing and the reeds won't work correctly.

Designer of - Vintage 1940 Cicero Mouthpieces and the La Vecchia mouthpieces

Yamaha Artist 2015

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