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Re: A Clarinet Mouthpiece

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2010-11-14 15:22

"you would need to find two good reeds for every performance, and hope that the reed on the Bb does not dry out while you are playing the A."

I think the dry reed (even less than having two good reeds) is the crux of the problem. It's the reason I use synthetic reeds for pit work if I'm doubling among clarinet, sax and/or bass clarinet. Even trying to do something like Brahms 2nd, where the short change times require that you either transpose or use two completely separate setups, demonstrates why the two setup solution is very risky. It's for the same reason that probably most players who use C clarinets use the same mouthpiece they use for B-flat and A (and many avoid the problem by transposing C parts to B-flat and not using a C instrument at all).

As a result, separate A or C mouthpieces are probably never going to be attractive to many players - at least until synthetic reeds are no longer distinguishable in sound and response from cane.

Karl

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