Klarinet Archive - Posting 000133.txt from 2000/02

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Mouthpiece swabbing
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 23:23:26 -0500

At 09:22 AM 2/2/2000 -0500, George Kidder wrote:
>Influenced, I suppose, by Roger Garrett's admonitions not to swab, and my
>own desire to keep the mouthpiece at least a little sanitary, I have
>adopted a middle ground, and made up a mouthpiece swab with a short cord
>and a small (6" or so) piece of old undershirt material. Does the trick
>without pulling the whole handkerchief swab through the mouthpiece. And in
>using it, I try to pull it to avoid the tip. So far (2 years or so) there
>has been no noticeable change in the mouthpiece.
>
>After learning of this problem, I examined the mouthpiece I had played on
>through high school and college, and indeed the tip area was rounded off -
>probably from pulling the whole swab through it and not being very careful.
> It sure was out of shape!
>
More likely beaten to a pulp by a reed slapping against it hundreds and
thousands of times per second for hours a day!

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is too loud.

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