Klarinet Archive - Posting 001174.txt from 2000/06

From: rgarrett@-----.edu
Subj: Re: [kl] old mouthpiece
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 11:37:47 -0400

Hmmmmm,

You must not have been serious when you asked about mine!

RG

At 12:09 AM 06/26/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>Prof, do you think you can counsel me on buying a Vandoren or Pomarico
mouthpiece for my Eb clarinet?
>
>David McClune wrote:
>
>> Advise and history needed. I have a 73 year old student who had studied
with Keith Stein 54 years ago at Michigan State. She loaned me an old MO
that has history. He told her she needed a better mouthpiece, and went
through his box of mouthpieces and gave her an old duck-bill Pedler from
Elkhart, and told her to send it off to Mr Kasper in Chicago who worked for
Goldbeck (?). Kasper was to put a Portney facing on it. For you facing
number folks, it measures 32, 22,12, 8-,,,tip of 110 and has a bore of 570
throat to 590 exit.
>>
>> Well, it plays like a dream. It has a centered sound with an excitment
or liveness or ping in the sound. It is not as covered or warm (?) as my
Pynes and self modified M-13's. However it plays sharp. Using a 67mm
barrel it still stays above 440.
>>
>> Any ideas... other than how can YOU contact her for a better price offer?!
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> Dr. David McClune
>> Professor of Woodwinds
>> Director of Bands
>> Union University
>> Jackson, TN 38305
>>
>> office-901-661-5294
>
>
>
>
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Roger Garrett
Professor of Clarinet
Director, Symphonic Winds
Advisor, IWU Recording Services
Illinois Wesleyan University
School of Music
Bloomington, IL 61702-2900
(309) 556-3268

A Clarinetist's Revenge is sometimes personified by the following excerpt
from the London Daily News, circa 1926:

"The saxophone is a long metal instrument bent at both ends. It is alleged
to be musical. As regards markings, the creature has a series of tiny taps
stuck upon it, apparently at random. These taps are very sensitive: when
touched they cause the instrument to utter miserable sounds suggesting
untold agony. Sometimes it bursts into tears. At either end there is a
hole. People, sometimes for no reason at all, blow down the small end of
the saxophone which then shrieks and moans."

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