Klarinet Archive - Posting 000424.txt from 1999/12

From: "Buckman, Nancy" <nebuckman@-----.us>
Subj: RE: [kl] Hite Eefer
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 13:22:26 -0500

I've been playing the E-flat clarinet for almost twenty-five years. In that
time , I have owned three different model clarinets. The first was a Selmer
Paris model that came with an HS* mouthpiece. It was a hard to control horn
and it is what I cut my teeth on for the eefer.

After I figured out what I wanted in an eefer, I selected a Buffet horn.
The only mouthpiece that performed in every respect for me was a Hite
mouthpiece. I liked that Hite so much that I chose Hites for my Bb and A
R-13's.

When I bought my Patricola's the Hites didn't work so well. I was having
articulation problems and pitch problems with the A clarinet. I finally
settled on Greg Smith mouthpieces. They played well on the four new horns
that I bought from Patricola. The two wooden ones have an especially mellow
sound that everyone seems to like (in addition to myself). They look good
too with the rosewood of the clarinets.

Don't turn your nose up on the Hite mouthpiece before you give it a try.
For twenty years, I used them with no complaints.

Nancy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shouryu Nohe [SMTP:jnohe@-----.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 1999 12:35 AM
> To: Clarinet People
> Subject: [kl] Hite Eefer
>
> Hey - there's a J.D Hite Eefer mpc up on Ebay; I'm sort of interested in
> an Eefer mpc myself, and having played the JDH bass mouthpiece, which is
> fair, but not the best, I'm wondering what the concensus on the Eefer mpc
> is. If you could compare it to a Vandie B44, that'd be good, since the
> B44 is the only Eefer mpc I've played...
>
> J. Shouryu Nohe
> http://web.nmsu.edu/~jnohe
> Professor of SCSM102, New Mexico State Univ.
> "If I wanted a 'job,' I'd have gone music ED, thank you very much!"
>
>
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