Details Reviews Related Posts Yamaha has prepared an array of top-quality woodwind mouthpieces to meet the musical requirements of players at every level of proficiency in every genre.
Yamaha mouthpieces are made of plastic or hard rubber. Both are designed to produce a well-balanced tone with all the flexibility the player requires. The 4C has a moderately narrow sized tip opening, and the 5C has a moderate sized tip opening. For beginners, narrow tip openings provide consistent intonation and easy response, generating a good, clear tone. More advanced players should take advantage of wide tip openings that help the player achieve greater volume and projection while providing a rich tone quality and easier vibrato.
Yamaha mouthpieces are designed in consideration of tip openings and facing lengths, and are combined with an appropriate throat size, chamber size and shape, baffle shape and angle, bore size, window size, and facing curve depth.
An inspection after every step of the manufacturing process ensures that the mouthpiece can be relied upon with confidence. Ideal for professionals and beginners alike.
Material: plastic Tip opening: 1. Note though that Yamaha make two ranges of mouthpieces - a Standard series and a Custom series. You want the Standard series made in hard plastic. There is still a choice to be made, however, and that's in the model of mouthpiece you buy.
Mouthpiece models are often described by a combination of letters, numbers and symbols. Yamaha use a number and a letter - 4C, for example. These markings indicate the characteristics of the mouthpiece - which is another topic in itself. As far as the beginner looking to buy a Yamaha piece is concerned, the basic range runs from a 3C piece up to a 7C - and the smaller the number the brighter the mouthpiece will sound the higher the number, the darker.
Brightness and darkness are terms that describe the general tonal response of a mouthpiece, and in very simple terms you can think of brightness as being edgy and piercing and darkness as being full and mellow. It might sound like brightness isn't going to be something you'd want, but a bright mouthpiece is often easier for a beginner to play. Conversely, a dark mouthpiece can turn out to be a bit stiffer to blow. In recent years there has been a trend towards darker mouthpieces, and I often see students struggling with such pieces.
As such I would recommend going for a Yamaha 3C or 4C mouthpiece - perhaps a 5C if you're adamant that you want a warm tone.
Leave the other models to players who are able to try the pieces out and make their own minds up. Clarinettists also have the option of buying the basic Buffet mouthpiece. It's a bit more expensive than the Yamaha, and my own personal preference would be for the Yamaha piece - but you won't go far wrong with the Buffet.
There are other brands available - for example the David Hite range of basic mouthpieces is often recommended as a decent alternative - but one thing to watch for is the 'shop own brand'. These might well be good, and can often be a bit cheaper than big brand pieces, but they won't be as well known and therefore as well documented when it comes to how well they work. If you can call upon the services of an experienced player who can try them out for you, they might represent a bargain - but otherwise you're better off playing it safe.
Beware too of 'the push'. You'll see that it's possible to spend a lot of money on a mouthpiece, and there's a huge range that come in at about two to three times the price of student pieces. Such mouthpieces are of good quality, and you may well be told by a helpful sales assistant that these pieces are far better than the one you're looking to purchase.
They're right - but until you have the playing skills to test such pieces and choose the one that gives you the sound and feel you want, you're better off sticking with a basic piece a year is sensible amount of time to practise before considering a 'pro quality' mouthpiece.
You may also be offered a fancy ligature the clamp that holds the reed in place. At this stage you can forget it - there are endless debates among experienced players about whether such ligatures offer any benefit, and if the professional players can't agree then you certainly won't benefit from any supposed difference.
If you have a cheap mouthpiece you probably have a cheap ligature. It will do - and will probably fit your new mouthpiece - but a good quality basic ligature is easier to use and will hold the reed on with more accuracy. If the ligature you're offered costs around half the price of the mouthpiece, tell the seller to think again. Many of the finest players I've ever heard use basic ligatures - buy a more expensive one when your playing skills are good enough to allow you to hear any difference or not I have used a variety of ligatures over the years, I now use plain metal ones.
You'll also need a mouthpiece cap, which protects the vulnerable tip of the mouthpiece and the reed. Again, you may already have one - and it will probably be more than adequate. If offered an expensive model, just ask for a plain one - it'll do just fine. You may also be offered mouthpiece patches. So, generally, getting a 5C and using the appropriate reed to get the sound and control that you desire would be a much better investment in the long run than it would be to get a 4C and then upgrade later to a 5C.
Wider tip openings are better for generating volume and projection. They enable the saxophonist to produce richer tones with easier vibrato. So, when it comes to solos, color diversity, and the richness of tone, the Yamaha 5C is the better mouthpiece for you.
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