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College Student New Clarinet

Author: Tabitha
Date: 2014-08-24 03:48

I'm not necessarily new to this forum, but this is my first post, so I'm sorry if I do something wrong.

A little background information

I am going into my second year of college (and second semester of music education), and since I have started taking private lessons and progressing, I have become unsatisfied with my current instrument, a Schreiber W (I think. It is for sure whichever Schreiber was made exactly like the E11). I'm pretty happy with my current mouthpiece/reed setup, Vandoren M15 with V12 3.5s, though I am thinking of eventually moving up to a 4. My private teacher has told me that if I am unsatisfied that he would not stop me from getting a new clarinet, but that he hasn't recommended it yet because I'm not a performance major. I was playing around on a few friends' clarinets and noticed that 4 of the 5 made me sound better. They were all professional models, so I was thinking of trying to find a professional model that suited me well. I was thinking of starting with trying R-13s which made up 3 of the 4 clarinets that I was playing around on, but I'm also open to other suggestions.

My question is, would you suggest that I move to a professional instrument (or just get a new one) or because I'm an Ed major, would it even be worth it?

Also any information or suggestions for anything would be greatly appreciated.

Post Edited (2014-08-24 05:17)

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