Author: Menendez
Date: 2008-03-10 20:05
There is not any problem for play in French clarinets with a German/Viennese mouthpiece.
All you have to do is to order one to a mouthpiece maker like Viotto, Willscher, Nagamatsu, etc...
You have to say him the pitch of your clarinets, and what tip opening and table lenght you want (choosing the right reeds depends from it). Barrel length and clarinet model can help to the maker to design a mouthpiece what will not give you too much problems with intonation.
Since the embochure is different, the voicing is different too, and you will have at first some little problems with intonation in some notes, that you can solve easily playing with your embochure and voicing.
Learning to play with these moutpieces is an advantage... Practicing and testing several mouthpieces, reeds, etc... you can finally play with German System / Reform Boehm / Boehm clarinets at the same, without too much problems... and using the same reeds model and number!
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