Author: Max S-D
Date: 2021-08-13 04:06
I tried one when they first came out in an "H" facing, which was the most open one at the time. I haven't played the BD series, but I was using a B40 part of the time back then, I think.
I think it would be a very good mouthpiece for someone who wanted quite a dark sound. Intonation seemed very solid and pitch and tone were about as stable as anything I've used. I think the dark, thick tone made it feel very forgiving to me, almost like it would be hard to make a bad sound with that mouthpiece.
For me, though, it felt a bit constraining, since I don't tend to favor a sound that dark. I also felt like the upper dynamic boundary was a lot quieter than on the mouthpieces I usually prefer. Where I would expect the sound to start to pick up edge and break up a bit, it just...wouldn't go louder. I feel the same way about the B40, but the sensation was much more pronounced on the Vocalise.
It's well-made mouthpiece, but the design was not for me.
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The Clarinet BBoard
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