Klarinet Archive - Posting 000504.txt from 1999/11

From: "Doug Sears" <dsears@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Crappy mouthpieces
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 12:17:38 -0500

>>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.

One thing to watch out for is that electrical tape is thinner than most
commercial mouthpiece patches, and you'll get more sound via bone conduction.
For example, when I was comparing my current sax mouthpiece with a Bay patch to
a range of new ones with electrical tape, I picked out one that seemed to have a
louder, brighter sound, and was disappointed when it lost that edge when I put a
Bay patch on it. Maybe tape-recording your mouthpiece trials would avoid that
problem.

--Doug

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