Klarinet Archive - Posting 000114.txt from 1996/09

From: Mark Charette <charette@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: Thank You!
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 19:21:52 -0400

MISS MERLYN L KIDDER wrote:
> Has anyone ever heard of James Pyne? He makes and sells his own
> line of clarinet accessories and I wanted to know what you all
> thought of his barrels. I'm looking into buying one for myself. I
> tried one out at music camp and it sounded really nice. I believe it
> was normal taper, but the new inverted or reverse(not sure which)
> bore I have no frame of reference for.
> Also, I was looking for a new mouthpiece, but I'm not sure what
> one to buy. At music camp they told us about this guy who custom
> makes them just for you, but he is located about 5 hours away from me.
> I was wondering if anyone knew of someone else who does this and is
> located within a couple hours of Dutchess County in New York.
>

The Pynes are members of the list; I'm sure they'll get in contact
with you!! They also make mouthpieces, about which I have heard many
good things. They're less than 5 hours from you in a fast plane ;^)

There are a goodly number of mouthpiece makers listed in the Clarinet
magazine; I don't play clarinet so I can't make any judgement, but
the ones I've met or had casual contact with seem awful nice. But,
then again, they're clarinet players and musicians ;^)
--
Mark Charette "Languages come; languages go--only Fortran is for
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