Klarinet Archive - Posting 000494.txt from 1999/11

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Crappy mouthpieces
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 20:22:17 -0500

At 12:48 AM 11/13/1999 +0100, Rien Stein wrote:
>Bill Hausmann wrote:
>
>>Saliva is not problem. We have Sterisol and Sanimist and things to clean
>that up. But once you >have teethmarks on a mouthpiece, it becomes "used"
>and nobody wants it. That is why stores >are reluctant to let people try
>mouthpieces.
>
>It is possible to get little pieces of plastic that can be stuck onto the
>mpc. Then there will be no teeth marks on the mpc. I always use thes anyhow,
>as they make the feeling of the mpc in the mouth a lot more agreeable.
>
I use them all the time, on all my clarinet and sax mouthpieces. I can
barely play without them anymore! But they can get rather expensive as
one-time use items. The electrical tape that has been suggested should be
just as effective for a relatively brief trial.

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
451 Old Orchard Drive http://www.concentric.net/~bhausman
Essexville, MI 48732 http://homepages.go.com/~zoot14/zoot14.html
ICQ UIN 4862265

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is too loud.

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