Author: Tony Pay ★2017
Date: 2014-03-21 19:05
If you have a barrel that you like, but find that it's sharp – sharp, that is, to 'the going pitch' in your neck of the woods – then a 13 series mouthpiece may be your solution.
(Alternatively, you can use tuning rings between barrel and top joint.)
However, I find that there is variation in quality between mouthpieces that have identical labels. So, I have an excellent CL5/non-13 that I use on the barrels of my flattish 1889 and 1906 Buffets; and on more modern instruments, I use a CL6/13 that I also like.
But it's worth having the shorter barrels and shorter mouthpieces in case I have to play in a cold environment with a sharp piano (in Italy, say).
Nevertheless, I also have CL5s and CL6s, 13 and non-13, that I seem to like a bit less. I bought them on spec, and keep them because SOMETIMES a particular reed and piece of music works OK with them.
So, I think if I had to deliver a message to this discussion, it would be that there is no 'solution'.
BUT, there are SOLUTIONS, depending on the circumstances.
And that applies to playing, too. Good players don't just do ONE THING THAT WORKS.
FLEXIBILITY is the name of the game; and, hopefully, the outcome is excellence.
Now, obviously, that excellent outcome LOOKS LIKE consistency. But, there's no consistency in the differing responses of the player – including changes of equipment – to varying circumstances.
Tony
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