Klarinet Archive - Posting 000750.txt from 1999/06

From: LeliaLoban@-----.com
Subj: [kl] RE: klarinet Digest 24 Jun 1999 20:15:00 -0000 Issue 1515
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 08:18:32 -0400

Michael Cogswell wrote,

>Well this is just swell.

>It's bad enough worrying about my clarinet getting blown out, now I have to
worry about my mouthpiece facing wearing out.>

>I think I'll buy a bugle. A nice durable mouthpiece and no moving parts.>

And then you can take lessons from the buglers about acquiring the obligatory
drawer full of mouthpieces and the other obligatory drawer full of mutes.
Mutes, it seems, come in infinite variety with endless subtleties. In fact,
a trumpet list member mentioned just this week (not sure if he was bragging
or complaining...) that he owns 12 mutes. Mutes have corks where they fit
into the bell. To lubricate or not to lubricate? To shave down the corks or
not to shave them down, and if so, how much, and with what grade of sandpaper?

Enjoy!

;-)
Lelia
(guilty of consorting with known brassholes again)

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