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Re: Bass clarinet mouthpieces

Author: David Kinder
Date: 2015-11-21 06:16

If you don't have a good name brand mouthpiece now... then ANYTHING you get will be an improvement.

Way back in my senior year of high school, I also played at my local community college and used THEIR Selmer wood bass clarinet & setup. It was a Selmer C* mouthpiece. It was SO much better than the bundy setup and unknown mouthpiece I had used previously.

I remember there was one piece of music in HS wind ensemble that had an exposed bass clarinet part (a string of descending 8th notes), but I couldn't play it. After having played the pro Selmer bass, I can tell you that it was the Bundy instrument, not me.

With my clarinet, I originally had a Vandoren B45, then I got the Vandoren B45 profile 88 "two tone" mouthpiece, then I got a Vandoren M13. Today, I have a Vandoren M13 Lyre. The longer you play, the more you figure out what you want and you'll upgrade and switch out your equipment on a somewhat regular basis.

Just get a mouthpiece, and then you can get another new one later. Your first professional quality mouthpiece won't be your last.

If you're playing on school equipment, you may want to keep a copy of the receipt just to prove that it's YOUR equipment and that it doesn't belong to the school.

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