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losing air

Author: klarisa
Date: 2025-05-21 17:45

Good afternoon (from Belgium).

I have been playing clarinet as an amateur for over 40 years now. The last few months i started to lose air on both sides of my mouth. It starts after about a half hour of playing. I used to be able to play for several hours. The problem seems to be worse when playing low notes than high notes. I have 3 clarinets and it happens with all of them

Could this be due to age. And can i do something about it. I really like my current setup Vandoren BD5 mouthpiece and blue box nr3 reeds so i would rather not go down in reed strength, or change my mouthpiece.

Playing long tones come in to mind but that seems to make the problem appear even earlier.

Regards Johan

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