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Author: michael
Date: 2004-10-28 19:39
well i guess the title of this post may be misleading. but i have encountered the best mouthpiece ever!!!... at least for me. it is not a vandoren or selmer v,l, lyre, mandolin anything. it was a simple black plastic mouthpiece from my local music. it came a bag and it was labled 'GENERIC CLARINET MOUTHPIECE (B FLAT)' and it cost $11.95 or something like that. anyway as far as inexpensive plastic mouthpieces go... it really was the best mouthpiece i ever had. right before going on the field in a recent marching band competition i dropped my clarinet. the mouthpiece and reed were destroyed but the clarinet was fine. i had spare mouthpieces in my case but the one i had just broken was my favorite. anyway, the mouthpiece was labed 'GENERIC' so basically some factory poured black plastic into some clarinet mouthpiece mold and let it cool. i had the mouthpiece for 6 years so maybe i like it because i became accustomed to it. anyway, it let me play so expressively. i could play from low e to the second c above the staff... on my plastic selmer student cl300 clarinet. i could play loud, i could play soft, i could play high, i could play low. i loved that mouthpiece. some of you may think 'you must not have sounded that great' because it was a plastic generic mouthpiece but others and myself agreed that i sounded really good. i don't have dough to spend on hard rubber yet so my other moupieces are plastic too. i have the selmer (usa) (if the usa part matters) goldentone 2 and 3 mouthpieces. the 2 has a very narrow opening and makes high notes sing. but, if your instrument has the smallest leak, the mouthpiece is going to let you know it is there. the 2 mouthpiece only played well on ONE vandoren v12 strength 3 reed my teacher gave me. when i barely nicked that reed, the mouthpiece still played but never sang again. not even on reeds of the same statistics. the selmer mouthpiece numbered 3... well it is okay. it let me play... that is it. i don't get flexibility... nothing. it just lets you play. apparently the numbers were 4= wide, 3=normal, 2=narrow. i do not suggest the selmer goldentone 3 mouthpiece. there are better mouthpieces for those of you who want expression when you play. if it matters at all i use the clear plastic luyben ligature. and MY BAND IS GOING TO THE COTTON BOWL IN DALLAS TEXAS!!!!!!!!!
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Author: elanah
Date: 2004-11-07 17:41
where did you get it???????????
i dropped my clarinet in band camp and the mouth piece broke and the school is making me use a (brand new)school mouthpiece and i hate it!!!the one i broke was an v(something that began with a v i cant remember anymore)
and i liked it because i could play..(read your discription of your mouthpiece) and now i cant please tell me where to find one i live in austin and i cant drive so i cant go too far t o find one!!
help!!
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