Author: babrinka77
Date: 2014-06-23 11:02
Donald, sorry if my answer looks like unpolite. I didn't try to say that i don't belive you about the reform-boehm mouthpieces, is only that i don't understand the concept. I mean, as i understand, a reform-boehm is a clarinet with exactly the same bore of a german clarinet but with the key mechanism of a boehm system clarinet, so why should it have a diferent mouthpiece?, this is what i don't understand. Besides, i guess someone owing a reform-boehm does it because he preferes the "german" sound characteristics rather than the "french" sound, so i guess this involves a german bore and a german mouthpiece. I checked some mouthpiece makers and didn't find any reference to reform-boehm mouthpieces (Viotto, Leitner and Krauss, Hans Zinner, Nick Kuckmeier). The only place where they mention something is Wurlitzer, and, by the way, they offer a german mouthpiece with a custom barrel to play on French clarinets, i asked them, they told me i would play in tune and i would play the clostest to the "german" sound as one can with a french clarinet.
As most of the things involving clarinet, some things work for ones and some not. I have listened by myself someone playing a german mouthpiece on a Buffet clarinet, a top player, and the sound was just great. I don't know whether it was closer to a "german" sound or to a "french" sound, it was just beautiful, of course that this plyer would sound beautiful with a french or german or chinese facing mouthpiece. The thing is that it can work, this is for sure.
In my case, i play a Buffet clarinet, not because i love the "french" sound rather than the "german" sound, for me they are both lovely when played correctly, but because as a student is what i learned to play and what everybody plays here. What i want to do, is to get the best possible sound with Legere reeds, so if they work better in german mouthpieces and a german mouthpieces can be used in French clarinets (as i told i have heard two players with this combination and it can work), i want to try, and i started the post to hear from people who made this combination work.
Another option for me, would be to but a reform boehm clarinet, so then it would be easier, and i know many pros playing reform boehm (Wurlitzer and Scwenk and Seggelke) with synthetic reeds, but i can't aford this now, that's why i'm trying to do the combination with a Buffet.
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