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Minor mouthpiece adjustment?

Author: sonicbang
Date: 2011-09-23 20:10

I started to play the bass clarinet 2 months ago on a daily basis, because the Dante symphony by Liszt will be performed by the University Symphony here at Szeged, and I have to play the bass clarinet in this performance.

I bought a Vandoren B50 3 years ago because I loved it's big, robust but flexible sound. The only issue seems to be the articulation. Although there aren't speedy staccato passages in that work, I feel the articulation is not clean enough.

I'm almost sure this is because the thick tip rail of the mouthpiece. Everything else is wonderful, things like sound, register change, intonation are superb. I have tried Vandoren 2.5 . 3 and 3 and 3.5(I had to shave them down a bit) blue box reeds, but all the same regarding this problem.

I have to mention that I have no problem with articulation on Bb clarinet, and I have tried all kinds of tongue positions while playing the bass clarinet.

Should I try to sand down the tip rail by 0.2-0.3mm with 1500 grit paper or not? Thanks for any advice.

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