Klarinet Archive - Posting 000278.txt from 1998/11

From: Ken Wolman <Ken.Wolman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Mouthpieces
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 07:41:38 -0500

evanse@-----.com wrote:
>
> Ok, I have yet to see a post about a Ralph Morgan mouthpiece. Does anyone
> out there play one? What seems to be the general consensus on these
> mouthpieces?

They're real expensive:-).

Related to this...Friday I got this urge (after seeing the pictures of
Feidman on the CDs with a crystal mouthpiece) to try glass again. Rod
Baltimore on 48th Street had a used O'Brien for $25.00. I don't know
what the facing is, but it was a well-spent $25 bucks. I suspect it's
one of the narrower facings because the mouthpiece is somewhat more
effective with No. 3 reeds than with No. 2's. It's a beautiful, focused
sound, somewhat thinner than what I get even from a Selmer HS*, but
really sweet and almost flutelike.

Baltimore told me that there really IS an O'Brien and he makes the
mouthpieces himself, and allegedly out of whatever is around. He
recycles glass: coke bottles, eyeglasses, whatever would otherwise be
tossed into the trash. "You got one of the better ones," he said to me,
"no air bubbles." ARE air bubbles a problem with crystal mouthpieces?

Ken

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