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Re: Vandoren's date for introduction of 442 MP's ?

Author: NBeaty
Date: 2018-10-10 01:32

"If you do that now with the present R13's you will be tuning to 435. Just facts. So you have to use much smaller barrels."

-Every Cicero Kaspar I've ever played/evaluated/heard that hadn't been rebored/otherwise destroyed played much higher than a 13 series Vandoren, often higher than the standard Vandoren on modern instruments. Put on a 63mm barrel, finger a C in the staff, and lip it down a little to get an in tune B... It seems like if it were a universal fact that these mouthpieces tune that low I would have come across at least one like that by now.

"There are of course players with beautiful sounds..."

- This is what I was getting at with Ricardo. He sounds great, but most people who use the same setup sound nothing like him. In fact, arguments can be made that many of the perceived changes in tone concept over the last 15 years alone have gone farther away from traditional American clarinet tone. So I was curious why you would credit Ricardo credit for maintaining traditional clarinet tone regarding equipment if so much of what he uses causes others to sound LESS like the beautiful tones of the past. I think if the community focused more on allowing their sound concept to be influenced by another rather than just copying their setup, we'd all be better off.

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