Author: TomS
Date: 2021-02-11 22:50
More testing ... I'm stuck at home with the pandemic and now, an ice storm ...
The M15 440Hz seem to tune the best on this instrument, for me, as far as my assortment of production MPs. It plays lower pitch, but with the supplied short barrel the tuning is on the mark. Amazing. Amazing. Reeds are still fairly soft #3 Evolution. As I remember though, I liked the M15 with VD blue-box (now all discarded or lost)
In addition, this is the only clarinet (other than some old Selmers) that, because of my wonky injured hands, doesn't demand raising the thumb rest and/or shaving the RH sliver key. It's because the RH pinky keys are stretched or further down the instrument, and doesn't cramp my hand, which usually causes stress and occasional bumping of the said sliver key. Before my old boss (now appropriately incarcerated) expanded my job description into more injurious activities, my hands could impressively sail thru clarinet passages with no problems, and on most clarinet key work ...
So, if the feel of your key work is not quite right, or you have problems bumping the RH sliver key, you might try the 576. I studied clarinet at local university for a semester in 2018, and we spent a good portion of each lesson on this problem, trying to mitigate it thru practice, rotating the instrument, exotic thumb rests, etc. on my R13-greenline. The solution is to change to an instrument with a different key geometry (and, IMHO, much better acoustical design).
Tom
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