Clarinet room

[alrec]

In my Orchestra band both our clairinets double on Ebers i believe. I miss orchestra....it dosent start up fr another month....TT_TT

[friskylurker]

clarinet+braces=?
any experiences/horror stories/tips? especially, though not only, bass calrinet?
I get braces the 2nd day of school. which is before begining of the year re-seats. Which sucks, because I'll inevitably lose first chair that I got at the end of the year auditions.

[alrec]

Braces dotn F*** with you to much. Not for clairinet atleast.

just relax, and hope that your teeth arnt hurting on re-seat day.....which they sadly will most likelly. You might be able to have the director postpone yours, or let you audition early...

Braces are a reasonable excuse.

[bandnerd01]

Well I had to recently switch instruments because of my braces. My main instrument was clarinet and I play it for marching band, but it has got to the point where I can only play for about 10 minutes at a time because it hurts so bad. It may be because I bite really hard when I play, but it just shreaded the inside of my lower lip, even with those bumbers or whatever they call them. But now my main instrument is going to have to be oboe when I get into the music department. Oboe doesn't put as much pressure on my lips.

But for me Braces=grrr...... I hate them and I so regret ever getting them....I thought I would never ever say, I hate playing clarinet right now....I actually dread marching band practice now a days. And clarinet use to be the love of my life....I'll pick it up again when my braces come off.

[friskylurker]

I'm really not looking forward to getting them Hopefully reseating won't be too huge a problem, because there's only two bass clarinets in symphonic this year... the other one's a senior, and she's a good friend of mine, so I'm not sure I'd be too comfortable challenging her... so hopefully my braces won't screw up my audition too bad. I'm actually more concerned about cutting up my lips with them when I play mellophone in marching band, because then they'd already be cut up when I try to play my bass clari (I have marching band the same day I'll be getting the braces, before I'll have a chance to practice my clarinet.) For the most part, my embochure on bass clarinet isn't too tight/biting to much, so hopefully that'll be ok.

[prongs4band]

I hope you do well in your re-seat!
So, what does everyone play on (what's your set up), or what does everyone WANT to play on? As a clarinet player, I'm constantly looking at mouthpieces!...and ligatures...and horns...and reeds...and....I could go on forever. lol. I am pretty picky (a pretty bad habit. lol).
Right now, I'm playing on: (concert set up)
Buffet R-13 with silver plated keys
Walter Grabner CXZ_K11 Mouthpiece
Legere 3, 3.25 (these two work best with my mouthpiece, ligature, and me combo), or 3.50 or Vandoren V12 3 1/2 (the Legere reed is synthetic...but it's INCREDIBLE. Pretty expensive (about $18.95), but it's incredible!!!)
I have many ligatures...but I mainly use my Luyben (about $10.00, but is incredible), and my Vandoren Optimum. I actually prefer the Luyben over my Optimum. Every once in a while I go to my BG Super Revelation. The BG Taditional Silver Plated is pretty good. (not worth the $50+ in my opinion).

Marching Set up:
Buffet B12
Vandoren B45 mouthpiece (I tried an M13, M13 Lyre, 5RV, 5RV Lyre, and some others, but this particular B45 came out on top.)
Vandoren V12 or Traditional 3 or Legere 3
Vandoren Optimum Ligature (Sometimes my Luyben)

Every once in a while, I'm spoiled by my Grabner mouthpiece, and take it out to the field...I shouldn't...So that's going to stop.
Anyone else?

(Edit): Before I got my R-13, I wanted to get a Buffet Tosca...But that's not going to happen anytime soon. lol. They're one pretty penny. And I wanted to get a Greg Smith mouthpiece. And I've also been intrigued by the Buffet Limite Line (extremely close to the R-13, but with a little different keywork, and quite a bit less expensive) made especially for the Brook Mays company. The F-13 sounds interesting, too.
And I'm currently in the process of getting an Eefer. (I'm definately saving up my money now!).

[bandnerd01]

well I personally recommend for mouth piece, a Vandorean B-45, I love mine...

for marching band I play on a crappy old plastic LeBlanc Vito
for what was going to be concert band and everything else, a brand new Buffet R-13....and that cost me a pretty little penny thats for sure....

[javelin]

For a concert setting, I have:
-Henri Selmer Paris HS* mouthpiece. I tried this one out in comparison to other mouthpieces, which included a Vandoren or two, other Selmers, and I can't remember. This one was my favorite of them.
-Rovner Dark Ligature.
-Vandoren V12, hardness: 3.
-Selmer USA CL200. I'm only worthy of an intermediate model, and probably only ever will be. I tried this one in comparison to many others, including some Buffets, and once again, it was my favorite. It's actually even used, and has been refurbished, though it's not old and works fine. It has cork pads, and has silver-plated keys.

If I were marching (I miss marching clarinet):
-Premiere by Hite mouthpiece. <3
-Some generic metal ligature.
-Whatever reed I can get a hold of that is appropriate enough.
-Vito Reso-Tone clarinet that has a 3 on it.

[Camanda]

About braces and clarinet: I've read in numerous places that they don't actually change your sound. It sounds different to you because it changes how you hear yourself -- all that metal in your mouth changes your internal "sounding board," if you will. This article is about playing the trumpet with braces, but look at it broadly: the sections about attitude adjustment and mouth/lip guards are still relevant. Don't give up on it just 'cause you have braces.

Setup: I need a new clarinet. I just don't need to buy one right now, and I can't afford it anyway. I use a Vandoren M30 Profile 88 mouthpiece, Vandoren Rue Lepic 56 size 3 reeds, and either a Bay Rhodium or Rovner Dark ligature. Depends on my mood. Oh, and I have a BG mouthpiece patch on my mouthpiece.

[prongs4band]

^ I wanted to try an M30, but Brook Mays didn't have any (I was there shopping for marching mouthpieces.). Nor did they have an M15 (those were the two I was wanting to try the most).
I've tried several Hite Premiers, and I used to play solely on one....that is until it got chipped. It played a lot better than some of my better mouthpieces, actually. It had a nice dark lower register, a beautiful and clear clarion, and a powerful altissimo. Man, I miss it. lol. It was an awesome mouthpiece, especially for marching band. I tried a couple after that to see if I could find one that came even close to it, but my search was unsuccessful. After Mr. Hite died a couple of years ago, the quality of all of the J&D Hite Mouthpieces have gone down tremendously. I heard the name of the company who Mrs. Hite sold their company and specs to, but I forgot.

[friskylurker]

I play on a Buffet Prestige Low C bass clarinet(I always forget the number, it's the higher of the two.. ) with a Selmer C* mouthpiece. I used Vandorean 3's for a long time, but just recently switched to medium-hard La Voz's... not sure if I'll stick with them when I finish the box.

my Soprano clarinet is a Vito, with an unknown type of mouthpiece (i haven't played it in a while and am too lazy to go upstairs and check) which I use vandorean 3's or 3.5's on.

I have a black rubber patch thingy on my bass mouthpiece, and a clear plastic one on my soprano.

[prongs4band]

Mouthpiece patches are a mouth saver to me! I like the BG clear ones, but I like the Vandoren Black ones better. It just feels so raw when I play without one. It's weird.

[friskylurker]

my bass clarinet mouthpiece vibrates far too much for comfort on my teeth without a patch. I put one on my soprano because after getting them when I started on bass, it just felt weird to switch to soprano without one. plus it keeps my teeth from scratching up the mouthpeice even more than happened from my first 2 years of it... theres big grooves.

[crazedclarinetist]

I've played clarinet since 6th grade, so about 8 years now, and after not playing all summer, I've come back to it with a fresh outlook. my clarinet professor and I really didn't share views on how I should practice/how I should be progressing or anything really. maybe I would have made it with someone else, but we just didn't click, and it was a rough year. I've picked up my clarinet for marching band, and fallen in love all over again.

for concert I played on a buffet R13, but a used one, about 20 years old, but in decent condition. I used a vandoren M15 mouthpiece with vandoren V12 3 1/2 reeds, and a rovner dark ligature.

for marching I use my ancient selmer that I started on in sixth grade, and I use the older of the reeds I used for concert with a vandoren B45 mouthpiece and a simple metal inverted ligature (not sure what it's called and I don't feel like digging it out). the only problem with this setup is that the clarinet hasn't been to the shop in years, and the last time the pads were replaced (about two years ago) I did it myself. add the rain from the past few days and the damaged cork on the bottom section, and it really needs some love, but the middle of the marching season is a really bad time to do that.

I also played the bass clarinet in 7th and 8th grade as well as second semester last year (freshman college), and I love it. I couldn't play it in high school because we had so few (good playing) clarinets and they needed my talent in the sopranos.

[clarinetgirl2006]

I went to my first lesson this week, and I am not sure how to fix a crack that is from my thumb hole on the top part of my selmer. The thing still works, but it apparently is leaking air, but I never noticed it. How can I get it repaired?