Klarinet Archive - Posting 000194.txt from 1994/02

From: Karen Noel-Bentley <karennb@-----.CA>
Subj: Mouthpiece patches
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 1994 22:44:30 -0500

On Fri, 11 Feb 1994, Jay Heiser wrote:

> Do you buy these or make them yourself? My teacher used to cut
> them out of rubber gloves. I don't know where to find the black
> gloves he used to use.
>
> I liked them at the time, but got out of the habit of using them
> since the double-sided sticky tape required some maintenance.

A friend of mine cuts up a bicycle inner-tube, and affixes it to the
mouthpiece with nail polish. I've never tried this myself, but it seems to
work for him.

By the way, I, too, am a student. I'm doing my masters in clarinet at the
University of British Columbia (Canada). I must say that I have already
learned a lot from the discussions on this list. Isn't technology wonderful?

Karen