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Mouthpiece suggestion

Author: Bryanwalker
Date: 2012-02-11 18:16

Hello everyone,

I am an oboist who recently returned to playing the clarinet (I gave up clarinet to solely focus on playing the oboe about 2 years ago). I have pretty much no interest in playing classical music (since I have enough of that with the oboe) instead I want to play jazz, especially dixieland. My "heros" of jazz clarinet playing are Mr. Goodman, Mr. Shaw and Mr. Fountain, so about a month ago I bought an old Selmer Balanced Tone clarinet from 1936.

Well today I picked up my clarinet from getting completely overhauled and I am thinking I need a better mouthpiece. The clarinet didn't come with a mouthpiece and by chance I found a super cheap "Woodwind" brand clarinet mouthpiece that I had from when I formerly played the clarinet. Can anyone recommend a good mouthpiece (hopefully less than $100) that would be well suited for playing jazz, and someone who is self taught and doesn't have "proper" embouchure?

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