Klarinet Archive - Posting 001254.txt from 2000/06

From: mus_ldj@-----.edu
Subj: Re: [kl] old mouthpiece
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 13:20:34 -0400

I am very serious. I just need to know where to get the blanks and stuff. I
REALLY need a new mouthpiece other than the factory one that came with my Eb.

rgarrett@-----.edu wrote:

> 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
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> 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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