Klarinet Archive - Posting 000733.txt from 2000/01

From: GrabnerWG@-----.com
Subj: [kl] Mouthpiece/ reamers.
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 12:44:36 -0500

Ed,

I haven't forgotten our previous e-mails.

I have a mouthpiece here which you might like, It is open and free blowing,
tunes slightly low on my horn, but that's because the bore in the mouthpiece
is large. The exit bore measurement is 15.1 mm or larger.

You might want to try it out with your Selmer.

Second. I am very interested in you making me a set of reamers. Now, don't
laugh, but here is my problem. What would the reamer look like. Would it be
round, with grooves like on a file. or triagular with sharp edges, like a
bassoon reed reamer?

I don't know.

Also, if I wanted to make the bore DEEPER, would I need a reamer wich a
rounded head.

Duh, I don't know. I'm learning this all from books, articles, and
experimentation.

Also, what kind of tool cane I used to work WAY DOWN at the bottom of the
baffle. Is there a curved file I can buy? Do I have to make my own tools? I
don't know this either.

Want to know my tool for shaping the tip baffle? I took a clip typr
clothespin, removed the spring, and using sandpaper, shaped the thick end to
the rounded curved shape I wanted. Then I cover it with a strip on sandpaper,
and use it as a scraper.

MUCH MUCH safer than using metal inside the mouthpiece.

Walter Grabner
who is...........
ClarinetXpress
Mouthpieces & More!!!!
http://www.clarinetxpress.com

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