Klarinet Archive - Posting 000739.txt from 1996/10

From: Everett Austin <austine@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Help needed re: teeth cushions (fwd)
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 01:03:58 -0500

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Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 21:51:31 -0800 (PST)
From: Everett Austin <austine@-----.edu>
Subject: Re: Help needed re: teeth cushions

Dear Mrs Brady,

I had my dentist make me a cushion for my lower teeth a couple of years
ago and it has been a very comfortable and virtually permanent solution.
Before that I used Charles Bay Lip-Ease and before that just had a sore
lip! My dentist made a casting of the lower teetha nd then made a thin
translucent flexible plastic cover from the mold. I cut off the portion
which would have covered the rear teeth, so just the front six are
capped. We made one out of rigid acrylic, but I did not like that as
well.
There is an English book by a dentist named Maurice Porter called The
Embouchure whichh describes this sort of thing.

Best wishes,

Everett Austin

Fairfax, California

On Mon, 28 Oct 1996, Linda
Brady wrote:

> I'd like to say Hi to all you American Clarinetists out there, and hope one
of
> you can help solve my problem.
>
> My daughter was once given some strips of plastic type paper which she
> had to fold and cut to size. This was then placed over her front teeth at
> the bottom - much like you place a folded Rizzla paper. She found that
> this saved her lip from getting sore when she played for too long.
> Unfortunately we don't know what they were called or where you get them
> from - the only thing we do know is that the person who gave them to her
> said they were from America and you can't get them in Britain.
> Gemma regularly goes on courses when she plays 9 - 10 hours a day
> and she attends a specialist music school where she practices 3 - 4 hours
> a day so you can imagine the amount of Rizzla papers she gets through - they
> go soggy so quickly - an they don't give AS much protection as the plastic
> cushions. Please could somebody out there tell us what they are called and
> where we might be able to get them from that might agree to send them to
> Wales.
>
> Thanks ALL for a wonderful list.
>
>
> Happy Blowing
>
> Linda Brady
> bradybunch@-----.net
> WALES UK
>

   
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