Klarinet Archive - Posting 000111.txt from 1999/10

From: Ken Wolman <Ken.Wolman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Metal "Selmer Clarinet Mouthpiece" on eBay?
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 09:09:03 -0400

CEField@-----.COM wrote:
>
> I sold one of these mouthpieces on eBay last year for about $75. The tone
> wasn't bad, but the mouthpiece felt very odd in my mouth. It was cold and I
> discerned a sort of metallic taste. The mouthpiece was also EXTREMELY heavy.
> If memory serves me, the person who purchased the mouthpiece was a sax player
> who doubled on clarinet. I think he said he had a Selmer metal clarinet and
> wanted a mouthpiece like the one that originally came with the instrument.
>
> Cindy

I don't know if I'm alone in this, but I find Selmer metal mpcs quite
difficult to use effectively. I purchased one of the metal classical
sax mouthpieces for my soprano some months ago, a C* facing on which I
could use a harder reed. What I found was that the soprano--always hard
on intonation--became downright unmanageable with this mouthpiece. I
have had no such problems with a Yanigasawa 5 or a metal Otto Link
7--the intonation and octave jumps are there, and true. On the Selmer
it was a horror-show. The only thing that solved the problem was a
change in ligature. I took a chance on a new ligature company I saw
advertising in Saxophone Player magazine. Now, attendez: I am NOT a
compensated spokesman for Consoli (http://www.consolims.com/), but the
ligature allows the horn now to play with firm intonation while using
the Selmer metal mouthpiece. Consoli seems to have a gift for salvaging
difficult or unplayable mouthpieces.

Ken
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