{"id":440,"date":"2016-10-16T10:10:39","date_gmt":"2016-10-16T17:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/?p=440"},"modified":"2016-10-16T10:14:06","modified_gmt":"2016-10-16T17:14:06","slug":"vandoren-black-diamond-bd5-mouthpiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/?p=440","title":{"rendered":"Vandoren Black Diamond BD5  Mouthpiece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/vandoren-black-diamond-bd5-clarinet-mouthpiece-regular-profi-657px-657px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-441\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/vandoren-black-diamond-bd5-clarinet-mouthpiece-regular-profi-657px-657px.jpg\" alt=\"vandoren-black-diamond-bd5-clarinet-mouthpiece-regular-profi-657px-657px\" width=\"657\" height=\"657\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/vandoren-black-diamond-bd5-clarinet-mouthpiece-regular-profi-657px-657px.jpg 657w, https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/vandoren-black-diamond-bd5-clarinet-mouthpiece-regular-profi-657px-657px-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/vandoren-black-diamond-bd5-clarinet-mouthpiece-regular-profi-657px-657px-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 657px) 100vw, 657px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was entranced by recent internet videos of the Vandoren BD5 Bass Clarinet mouthpiece. \u00a0Part of it might have been Vandoren artist David Gould&#8217;s sublime playing, but there was something about the richness and compact fluid sound of the setup that was wonderful. \u00a0I contacted my friend Alex who distributes Vandoren products in Canada and was informed that the Bass Clarinet version was not yet available, but he sent me two of the 13 series American pitch Soprano clarinet models. \u00a0What a revelation! \u00a0 They are incredibly rich, focussed, compact and fluid with great intonation and ease of articulation. \u00a0Much more focussed than anything I have played. \u00a0This has been the first time I have been tempted to change mouthpieces in 10 years and I am switching over for an extended trial. \u00a0They replace my previous favourite Vandoren models, which were already excellent and chosen by many professionals and students. \u00a0By the way, they seem supremely matched to the amazing V21 reeds! \u00a0I&#8217;m going to keep an extra couple in the studio for student trial. \u00a0Bravo, Vandoren!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was entranced by recent internet videos of the Vandoren BD5 Bass Clarinet mouthpiece. \u00a0Part of it might have been Vandoren artist David Gould&#8217;s sublime playing, but there was something about the richness and compact fluid sound of the setup that was wonderful. \u00a0I contacted my friend Alex who distributes Vandoren products in Canada and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7zTpS-76","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445,"href":"https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions\/445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}