Klarinet Archive - Posting 000064.txt from 1994/07

From: Cary Karp <karp@-----.SE>
Subj: Re: C clarinet mouthpiece
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 1994 08:37:50 -0400

On Mon, 4 Jul 1994, Clark W Fobes wrote:

> I have always felt that acoustically theC clarinet was too far away from
> a Bb to be able to use a Bb mouthpiece successfully.
>
> I took some time one day and played around with one of my blanks and
> tried to come up with a better "C" mouthpiece. My suspicions were
> correct. I have not come up with the "Ideal" configuration yet, but I
> found that if I substantially increased the bore width and shortened
> the over all length by about 1mm the general tuning and response was
> much better.

My Albert system C was delivered with an unstamped, brand-new mouthpiece
that was explicitly said to be for C rather than Bb. The mouthpiece
doesn't produce better results on either of my C clarinets than does my
Bb workhorse, but does differ from the usual Bb ones in that its
window is shorter. If anyone wants, I can provide some numbers about
the diff.