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Re: Implants for lower teeth?

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2021-06-06 15:30

One caveat I'll throw out there is that I am not directly familiar with the panoply of German facings. When I played Oehler system Wurlitzers (back in the day) INCORRECTLY, I had interacted with Dave Hite who collected the measurements of just about every major player in the world (and all his custom measurement clients). I sent him my favorite of a group of Wurlitzer mouthpieces and asked him to put that dimension on some of the others I did not like so much. The main one that worked for me also turned out to be only one minor dimension off from that used by Karl Leister and I got the impression that the M3+ was a pretty standard, traditional facing........back then.

Today there are many Germans using French reeds AND doing the same "hard reed thing" that American players have been obsessed with for generations (a good example is Ottensamer in Berlin).

So I might say, if you get one around 0.95 tip opening and a facing length of 29.00mm millimeters or so (like the M3+ or the N1 Viotto) that would be what works well with the 2.5 strength reed for the whole old school German approach.

You still have to firm up your mid-section when you blow (as always one MUST work the abdominals and diaphragm in opposition to create the proper platform for the vibrating column that actually extends from the bottom of the lungs through the end of the clarinet......really a foot beyond). But the embouchure is almost taken out of the equation as something to think about.

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

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