{"id":671,"date":"2018-08-19T12:02:49","date_gmt":"2018-08-19T19:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/?p=671"},"modified":"2018-08-19T12:02:49","modified_gmt":"2018-08-19T19:02:49","slug":"black-diamond-alto-clarinet-mouthpiece-arrives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/?p=671","title":{"rendered":"Black Diamond Alto Clarinet Mouthpiece Arrives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Black-Diamond-Mouthpieces.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-670\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Black-Diamond-Mouthpieces-1024x810.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"549\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Black-Diamond-Mouthpieces-1024x810.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Black-Diamond-Mouthpieces-300x237.png 300w, https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Black-Diamond-Mouthpieces-768x608.png 768w, https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Black-Diamond-Mouthpieces.png 1256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 549px) 100vw, 549px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to Clarinerd Central, folks. &nbsp;I just received the first Vandoren BD5 Alto Clarinet mouthpiece to reach North America, and it is as excellent as it&#8217;s &#8220;brothers.&#8221; &nbsp;Rich, powerful, resonant, free-blowing, and just really pretty. &nbsp;Very flexible&#8230;.you can sound as sinuously sweet as a soprano clarinet or big and woody like a bass clarinet or anywhere in between. &nbsp;Just in time for the launch of the British Columbia Clarinet Choir next month! &nbsp;First meeting of the primary players is scheduled for early September and the first rehearsal is set for the Chan Centre on October 28th. &nbsp;I expect a lot of eyebrows will be raised at how amazing an alto clarinet can sound and what it can add to any ensemble. &nbsp;The Backun Cocobolo bell on my alto doesn&#8217;t hurt a bit&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Clarinerd Central, folks. &nbsp;I just received the first Vandoren BD5 Alto Clarinet mouthpiece to reach North America, and it is as excellent as it&#8217;s &#8220;brothers.&#8221; &nbsp;Rich, powerful, resonant, free-blowing, and just really pretty. &nbsp;Very flexible&#8230;.you can sound as sinuously sweet as a soprano clarinet or big and woody like a bass clarinet or [&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":false,"_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-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7zTpS-aP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671","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=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":990,"href":"https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions\/990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}