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 Are closed clarinet moutpieces for lazy people?
Author: Jura82 
Date:   2019-10-15 11:44

Hello, I'm an amateur clarinetist from small European country (Croatia), but I play clarinet for 27 years. During this period, I've tried a lot of clarinet mouthpieces - almost all from Vandoren range - from M13lyre to 5JB. I play in amateur wood/brass orchestra.
My personal experience, and for my mouth end embouchure are mouthpieces in range - tip opening between 1.20 - 1.30mm. Currently I play on Daddario X25e with reeds 3 - 3.5 Tranditional Vandoren Bluebox. This mouthpiece can take a lot of air and has a very powerful and big sound - maybe not for legit playing, but for playing good forte for marches and polkas or waltzes. But this mouthpiece demands very strong embouchure and endurance and after few hours playing on it, my chops feel like boxing. :D
So, last year I bought M15 - this is closed mouthpiece with tip opening 1.03mm. It is a tipical mouthpiece for legit playing - very sweet and focused sound and I can play a whole day on it without tiring my lips. It is very easy to play piano and altissimo on it. But it also has a volume limit - forte is limited and sometimes I feel like I'm chocking on it. I play with 3.5 Vandoren on it. Trying harder reeds felt even worse - headache and back pressure. I have a feeling like this mouthpiece can't take all the air I'm putting in.

So, do you think that closed mouthpiece are for lazy people? Because, on more open mouthpiece I need to work harder, but getting much more dynamics and fatter sound. On closed one, I get focused tone but with limit to dynamic. What do you think?
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