 The Clarinet BBoard
|
Author: drroche
Date: 2006-03-20 20:22
Hello, I'm looking for a mouthpiece that will project more and will make a more virtuostic and bright sound. I play a great M30 currently, which I love for its warm and homogenous sound, but I'm looking for a mouthpiece more fitted for orchestra, even though I know many who use and love the M30 in orchestras. I've heard that the B40 could do the trick, and give it that ping and great showy sound and ease of articulation in the higher notes. Any thoughts?
also...
Can anyone give some advice on circular breathing or an article because I am still having trouble learing it efficiently.
Thank you!
|
|
Reply To Message
|
|
Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2006-03-20 20:32
drroche wrote:
> I've heard that the B40 could do the trick, and give it that
> ping and great showy sound and ease of articulation in the
> higher notes. Any thoughts?
Yes. The kind of mouthpiece you're looking for is the "holy grail" brand. You may have to search for it for a long, long time, also known as a "quest for the holy grail." Good luck.
Remember, it's how it's used, not what it looks like (or the brand name).
"He made an unwise choice ..." - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade"
|
|
Reply To Message
|
|
Author: Tyler
Date: 2006-03-21 00:51
This is the only online article of which I know. It was written by Dr. Spring who teaches at Arizona State University:
http://www.woodwind.org/clarinet/Study/CircularBreathing.html
|
|
Reply To Message
|
|
Author: J. J.
Date: 2006-03-21 06:48
If you switch mouthpieces, whatever you switch to will play a little differently, but nothing is more "fitted for orchestra" or will give it that "great showy sound." Not only is a mouthpiece a thing of personal taste, but you will get the same results time and again unless you know exactly what you're looking for and how to achieve it yourself. No mouthpiece can accomplish any of that for you.
|
|
Reply To Message
|
|
Author: clarnibass
Date: 2006-03-21 07:22
About circular breathing, here is how I learned it. I read and asked on the internet how to do it, and me and friends have talked about how to do it for a long time (on of these friends knew how to do it but somehow forgot).
After knowing basically all there is to know about it I started trying and after about a year of practice I still couldn't do it. In that year at the beginning I started practicing almost every day and slowly did less and less because I was frustrated. Eventually I gave it another try every other week with no success.
After a few months of forgetting about it, I suddenly played with someone and by complete coincidence someone mentioned circular breathing. He said he can do it and he showed me and he was pretty good. I watched him do it for a little while. Then started practicing again and after about two days I could do it.
To be honest I am not sure how I could suddenly do it. I think it is a little like a logic riddle. I think for a long time and just suddenly the solution comes to you! From the rest is just practice to make it better and better until it is as smooth as possible.
Good luck.
|
|
Reply To Message
|
|
Author: hinotehud ★2017
Date: 2006-03-21 14:49
I was playing a gig with a great sax player who mentioned he was circular breathing. I never had any luck with a clarinet (I could on a soprano sax) because I was trying to do it all with my cheeks. My friend told me he also pushes the air out with his tongue as will as cheeks. That did the trick for me too. The tongue raising up in your mouth helps keep the pressure up to sustain a tone, while you breathe in through your nose.
|
|
Reply To Message
|
|
Author: Brenda Siewert
Date: 2006-03-21 19:38
Good luck on your quest for the Holy Grail mouthpiece. Hey, maybe we should start a new line of mouthpieces with that name. We'd probably sell hundreds at hundreds of dollars each, what do you think? We could get some of those cheap 9.00 mouthpieces and rub off the name and restamp them.
|
|
Reply To Message
|
|
Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2006-03-21 19:43
Brenda,
If mouthpieces work like wine, then I'd very much like to see a blind test where a number of connaisseurs tests a number of unmarked mouthpieces...
I bet there's at least one cheapo among the top ten.
--
Ben
|
|
Reply To Message
|
|
Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2006-03-21 20:25
I'm now marketing my new line of H. Grail mouthpieces, which come in only one facing, the * facing --- so named because it is guaranteed to make any player a star.
Please send me one thousand dollars, or euros, and I'll be happy to send you one, after I change my identity and disappear into the jungles of Central America.
The mouthpiece also has two small pipe fittings coming out of it, with a short rubber hose connecting the two fittings -- this features greatly facilitates circular breathing.
|
|
Reply To Message
|
|
Author: stevensfo
Date: 2006-03-21 20:27
-- "I bet there's at least one cheapo among the top ten." --
Hmm, possibly among the clarinets themselves?
Steve
|
|
Reply To Message
|
|
Author: Brenda Siewert
Date: 2006-03-21 21:01
You guys are too much! We're not making fun of the original post...honestly, drroche, just give us a forum and we'll make jokes.
But seriously folks, my clarinet professor could make any mouthpiece sound like it was worth a mint! He is good...real good. And, if Buddy DeFranco plays a Vito clarinet--who knows what to make of the Holy Grail quest.
Circular breathing, on the other hand, is quite difficult. I have a trumpet player friend who does it quite expertly--but I can't. I can hold a note a really long time--but no circular stuff.
|
|
Reply To Message
|
|
The Clarinet Pages
|
 |
.jpg){kind=small}
.jpg){kind=small}
.jpg){kind=small}
.jpg){kind=small}
.jpg){kind=small}
.jpg){kind=small}
![[tongue]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie6.gif)
