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 Re: New clarinet mouthpiece from Theo Wanne
Author: djphay 
Date:   2012-01-07 01:20

I'm surprised the cost issue of certain products keeps cropping up in this board. Yes, some equipment retails for a high price, but I totally agree with the point Ed makes: it is not necessary to buy only those high-priced products in order to sound good. If that were so, every Buffet professional would play on Toscas as opposed to Prestiges.

Think of how may great soloists and pros play on "stock" products (Michael Collins and Paul Meyer play on vandoren mouthpieces, Sharon Kam still plays the R13s she got as a teenager, the list will go on and on no doubt with many American examples too). And it may well be that the most expensive mouthpiece isn't in fact suited to your playing style: take for example my own testing of Eb mouthpieces last year. The most expensive model I tried was the MoBa, but I didn't like the sound I made with it. It ended up being a toss between a Lomax model and a Zinner that was just about the cheapest option available.

So yes, some products might be expensive, but I don't think it is right to say that having such products available obstructs those who cannot afford those products from still sounding great. We are fortunate as clarinettists (professional or amateur, as I am) to have relatively inexpensive instruments and kit when compared to any other instrument in the wind section (and that includes amateur orchestras too). That isn't even going into Theo Wanne's response about what his costs have been to produce his mouthpiece.

Anyway, I'm off to keep working at trying to sound half as good on my expensive mouthpieces as a local professional using a bog standard vandoren... ;-)

David
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