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Re: I'm getting a new clarinet

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2006-10-04 19:51

Dear Chung,

The pitch was fairly erratic, that is not consistant note to note. For example my open G would be in tune and the A above was very high while the F just below was a struggle to keep up to pitch. The pitches tended to follow what one would expect from a Boehm system clarinet, it was just exaggerated to the point where I could never find a happy medium.

I have long thought that much of this trouble is caused by the type of mouthpieces that are most prevalent in the States these days. That is mouthpieces designed with LARGE VOLUME (physical size that is) tone chambers that bring pitch down too much in an attempt to offer "darker" tone. Since the tuning was much less troubled with the Yamaha I became less focused on the mouthpiece issue but I still think this is an issue that should be addressed more seriously across the board by mouthpiece designers.

.................Paul Aviles

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