Author: seabreeze
Date: 2022-09-21 05:04
I'm with Ed on this; bravo to the makers who continue to produce close facings, including relatively short French style close facings. The quick response and easy articulation these allow, along with the light embouchure that can easily control them can support a surprisingly large number of different clarinet styles. In Klezmer, you have Giora Feidman with his 1.00 mm glass mouthpiece (those branded with his name are collectors' items) and in classical, in addition to players like McLane, Wright, Gigliotti, Combs et al, who played on facings just under or above 1 mm., you have Stanley Drucker's Alelandais, open 1.03 mm at the tip, that has served him as orchestral musician and soloist for over 70 years, The storied French and Philadelphia Chedevilles typically had small lays that made them easy to play double lip. Close faced mouthpieces are a part of clarinet history that deserves to survive and thrive. It's good to see European musicians like Liquorice discovering and reveling in their merits when they are capably produced by artisans like Wodkowski. Makers like Fobes, Behn, Vandoren, D'Addario, etc. each bring their expertise to realize close faced models in different ways.
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Post Edited (2022-09-21 06:52)
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