Klarinet Archive - Posting 001044.txt from 1999/05

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Materials
Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 04:08:12 -0400

What effect do people suppose internal corrosion of a brass barrel would
have on the sound? Would it make producing blue notes easier?????
Roger S.

On Fri, 21 May 1999, Kevin Fay (LCA) wrote:

> Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 09:29:20 -0700
> From: "Kevin Fay (LCA)" <kevinfay@-----.com>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: "'klarinet@-----.org>
> Subject: [kl] Materials
>
> In a couple of recent posts, we find that (a) Roger doesn't like plastic
> mouthpieces as much as hard rubber and (b) Yamaha is producing brass (!)
> barrels. Wow.
>
> With one caveat, I don't share Roger's disdain for plastic. It's cheap, and
> acoustically OK. In fact, my preferred alto mouthpiece for "commercial"
> work is a Brilhart 5*, which cost me a total of about 30 bucks--too bad I
> didn't try it prior to buying all the other ones in the drawer! ;-(
>
> Because you can bite through one in about an hour, though (OK, just make
> tooth marks very quickly), you MUST use a mouthpiece patch. For me, this is
> not a problem--I always do. For the price, though, I think the Hite Premier
> is pretty OK.
>
> As to the brass barrels--Don Getzen (of the brass instrument family of the
> same name) has been making aluminum ones (DEGs) for years. If my memory of
> high school science is correct, brass is much heavier than aluminum. So I
> have to ask--do they sound good, and how much weight training do you have to
> do prior to using one?
>
> There have been lots of posts and cheerful argument over the benefits of
> wood clarinets--it's one of our favorite things to bicker about. If you buy
> a plastic mouthpiece and a brass barrel, though, the first 1/3 of your
> instrument won't be wood--what effect "wood" this have?
>
> (Sorry--couldn't resist)
>
> kjf
>
> kjf
>
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