Klarinet Archive - Posting 000341.txt from 1997/04

From: Dexter Churchill <dechurch@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: More Lip Cushions
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 08:57:43 -0400

For around 20 years, I have been using a lip guard made by a
dentist/tenor sax player friend of mine. I took him a copy of an article
written for the Selmer Bandsman (I think) by Rosario Mazzeo (remember the
Mazzeo clarinet?) who was a long time member of the Boston Symphony. He,
also used one of these lip gadgets, and the article told how to make one.
I no longer have the article, but basically, the dentist took a mold of
my upper and lower teeth, and made the device out of the same material
that they make false teeth from. I had him make it perfectly smooth (he
offered to cut fake teeth lines in it, but I wanted it smooth. The price
2o years ago was $75. I never play without it!

Dex

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