Klarinet Archive - Posting 000874.txt from 1998/03

From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: Re: Re: Vandoren Mouthpiece
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 11:45:02 -0500

On Fri, 13 Mar 1998, Bill Hausmann wrote:
> Call me a skeptic, but it seems to me that it would require relatively
> LARGE changes in the recipe to produce very SMALL changes in sound, given
> the vast number of other variables in the design of the mouthpiece, not to
> mention the instrument itself, the reed, the ligature, the player... I
> would expect that the ultimate choice of material formulation would be
> influenced more by workability and durability considerations than inherent
> tonal qualities. Again, I am just working on instinct here. If I'm wrong,
> I'd like to know where my error is.

LOLROF....that you are working on only instint!

Roger Garrett
IWU