Klarinet Archive - Posting 000820.txt from 1996/02

From: CLARK FOBES <reedman@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: David Shifrin's Mouthpiece
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 02:08:04 -0500

You wrote:
>
>Hi, could someone tell me what the current Mouthpiece and Facing that
David
>Shifrin uses? I lost contact with him when he moved from Ct. and a
friend
>asked me what he uses.(Also the Reed strength and Brand)
>Thanks,
>David C. Blumberg Phila,Pa. Reedman@-----.Com
>
I don't know if Dave Schifrin is still playing the same mouthpiece, but
as of the time he was teaching at Yale he played a James Kanter
mouthpiece. I saw a few "copies" that Jim had made for some of Dave's
students and I found them to be fairly unusual in that the facing
lenght was about 20mm. Obviously Dave made it work. I think he has one
of the great clarinet sounds today and is a truly imaginative artist.

Clark W Fobes