Author: WhitePlainsDave
Date: 2014-12-20 04:35
Weird title, right?
Clarinet playing, like life itself, is a series of tradeoffs. Our favorite mouthpiece(s) often brings us 85% (YMMV) of what we want, but we may find ourself wishing the mouthpiece was as "good at articulation as mouthpiece X", or offer "the projection of mouthpiece Y," or be "as (not as) easy to blow as mouthpiece Z."
.."or only if it had the intonational reliability of mouthpiece Q."
You get the idea...
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With that said, envision yourself in a lab where mouthpieces could combine their most positive attributes to form a "test tube baby mouthpiece," if you will, imagining the parent and child mouthpieces to be genderless.
The polygamy reference merely suggests that the baby mouthpiece could have more than 2 "genetic" parent's attributes, even through true polygamy still of course produces an offspring from only 2 parents of different genders. It's merely a metaphor from human existence that is void of editorial on the way people live their lives (subject matter for other bboards.)
What would that mouthpiece look like?
For me, right now, I'd like to marry a Vandoren CL6 with a Vandoren M30D. I like the CL6's ease of blow and articulation, with the dark chocolate smooth sound of the M30D, which holds left hand Clarion notes for me without getting them too bright.
It's okay to envision somewhat impossible things, like the offspring of a crystal and hard rubber mouthpiece.
What mouthpieces might you merge, and why? Again, throw as many mouthpieces into the "stew" as you need (including only 1) to get what you want. Just say what about each mouthpiece you'd like to include.
Perhaps if we reach consensus (as if!!!) we can merge Smith/Behn/Forbes etc. to mass produce it for us!
Post Edited (2014-12-20 04:36)
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