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Author: Max S-D
Date: 2022-09-20 23:49
"When you say "working resistance" do you mean that you have to blow harder to make it work? Also when you say "more embouchure work" do you mean that you have to pinch a bit harder with your embouchure to make it work? Sorry, I know that's a very basic question, but your advice is exactly the information that I'm looking for and I'd just like to be sure that I understand."
Good questions! I think Dan Shusta explained it very well, but I'd say that, with the same reed, a mouthpiece with more working resistance will require you to blow harder. If two mouthpieces have a significant difference in resistance, the more resistant of the two is likely to need a softer reed. I use a reed that is about a half strength softer on my Behn than on the Fobes.
We want our setups to have something to push against so that we have some reference point for tone and intonation. Dan's example of the free blowing Pomarico is exactly in line with my experience of overly free blowing mouthpieces. They can sound wonderful, but controlling them can feel like walking a knife's edge. Sometimes a hard reed can overcome this, but that can often require more pressure from the embouchure to control.
I'll preface what I am about to say with the caveat that matters of feel are extremely subjective, so take this with a grain of salt!
I have always found that there is a meaningful difference in subjective feel between resistance that comes from the reed vs resistance that comes from the mouthpiece. Resistance from the mouthpiece feels to me like I can control it with my voicing and air, whereas resistance from the reed feels like I need to use my embouchure more.
Obviously my voicing and embouchure are heavily involved in tone production regardless of setup, but that's how it feels to me.
In the last several years, I've felt like setups that require more embouchure pressure give me a kind of back pressure that I feel in my sinuses and are not conducive to the way that I like to voice on the clarinet (or bass clarinet or saxophone, for that matter). The Behn allows a greater feeling of physical relaxation while enabling me to sound as good as I am capable of. The Fobes is less relaxed for me, but I can also achieve my tonal goals with a bit more work. I know people for whom it is the exact opposite, though, so this is absolutely not a blanket statement of what will work for you, just an example of what works for me.
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