Supplied without ligature or cap. The beak is the engine of the instrument, the one that goes his general tone, his tuning fork. The quality of a beak is fundamental, it is she who will allow the artist to give the full extent of its expressiveness. Ulysse DELECLUSE, clarinet teacher at the Conservatoire de Paris from 1949 to 1978, liked to say that whatever his level, we can not afford to make a 2nd choice beak. That's why VR has been around for more than half a century, both for professionals and beginners. Others have since come to greatly enrich the Vandoren range.
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