Klarinet Archive - Posting 000944.txt from 2000/02

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Bass clarinet...a BAD saxophone sound?
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 10:54:10 -0500

Closely related to this -- does anyone know whether "low C" basses have
the
same bore diameter as their "Low E flat" relatives?

Roger Shilcock

On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Kenneth Wolman wrote:

> Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 08:46:02 -0500
> From: Kenneth Wolman <kwolman@-----.com>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Bass clarinet...a BAD saxophone sound?
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> At 08:12 AM 2/25/00 -0500, you wrote:
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> > >Selmer bass mouthpieces are at least a step in the right direction.
> > >With re-facing and voicing they can be made to play really well.
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> "Is a puzzlement" as the King of Siam said. When I got my used Bundy a=
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> year ago, the repair place that sold it to me suggested as a starter=20
> mouthpiece a Selmer D facing which I gather is the same as the HS**. It'=
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> REAL open and was a bear to play...though the low register rattled the=20
> windows. I just bought the thing without having it modified.
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> > >I'm working on a design that allows that "big low register sound" that
> > >we all love so well, but keeps a clear, non-honky clarion
> > >register.....just like a clarinet that just happens to be twice too
> > >long..... The design involves the same size chamber, but with a
> > >dramatically reduced windway, that also CONCENTRATES to flow of air.,
> > >I'll need it.
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> Ah, the search for the perfect mouthpiece:-). Well, I found one that doe=
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> more or less what you describe. The Pomarico crystal #1 facing with a 2=
=BD=20
> or 3 Grand Concert reed does wonderful things even for a student-level=20
> instrument. As I've gotten more and more into the bass, I find I prefer=
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> this to any other mouthpiece I have, irrespective of what I'm trying (the=
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> operative word) to play at the time.
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> Oddly, I've also had good luck with a cheapie I picked up on a whim, a=20
> Yamaha. The Vandoren B46 I picked up for jazz playing (w/ 1=BD Hemke ten=
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> reed) is SO open that the lower register turns the horn into a guaranteed=
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> lease-breaker; but playing in the clarion register or above is agonizing=
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> and there are only so many ways I can twist my mouth to adjust to the MP'=
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> characteristics.
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> Actually, I'd like to try any of these mouthpieces on a Selmer or Buffet=
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> low-C bass, but that's for when the lottery swings my way:-).
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> Ken
> ----------------------
> Kenneth Wolman http://www.rio-cardoner.com
> "The East River. But it was not a river at all. Merely a column of wate=
r
> connecting the upper harbor to the Sound. Yet everyone called it a river=
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> They chose not to think about it. They clung to the surface of things."
> --Peter Quinn, "Banished Children of Eve=
"
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