Klarinet Archive - Posting 001016.txt from 1999/04

From: Wesley Hawks <whhawks@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Bay mouthpeices
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 01:14:58 -0400

Many years ago I was at a music educator's convention and I tried everything he had. I
didn't like any of them. However, what impressed me was that he took measurements of my
Portnoy. Much later my Portnoy got chipped in the tip so i had him make a copy. He sent
his copy and one of his he thought similar. The copy was great and the other one was
definitely inferior. I'm still playing the copy. In the process of doing this I also
tried his ligatures and bought both the silver and the gold. The silver works better on
the Bb and the gold better on the A. (The silver is not good on the A but the gold is OK
on the Bb. So I use the gold when I have to double.)

Sorry I'm not much of a help on contemporary Bay mouthpieces.

Wesley Hawks
Jack Kissinger wrote:

> Wesley Hawks wrote:
>
> > I play a bay clarinet mouthpiece. However, it is a copy of an old Portnoy (which is
> > so, so much better than the current models. I never cared for the mouthpieces he
> > came up with. On bass clarinet, his mouthpiece is pretty good. What I really like
> > from Charles bay is his ligatures for both clarinet and bass clarinet. On bass
> > clarinet you will improve your tone more by getting his ligature than his
> > mouthpiece.
> >
> > Wesley Hawks
>
> Which Bay mouthpieces have you tried (and how many of each)?
>
> Just curious,
> Jack Kissinger
> St. Louis
>
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