Klarinet Archive - Posting 000645.txt from 2000/08

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Mouthpiece boring?
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 16:48:25 -0400

At 11:13 AM 8/22/2000 -0400, Karl Krelove wrote:
>When I buy a mouthpiece, I try to choose from several even after I've
>decided which make/model I want, because the sample variation is
>significant. The same was true 30 years ago. The mouthpieces my teachers had
>to pick from were even, I suspect, more varied within a specific model than
>they are now. The 5RV that I chose for a student in 1975 was picked from a
>batch of 7 or 8. The other 6 or 7 didn't play the same way the one I picked
>did. Chances are that neither will most new 5RV's today. So the differences
>you find between the old _selected_ example and a batch of new ones may be
>due more to the old one's uniqueness than a generic change in the model's
>specs. I'd be interested to know if judgments about changes in mouthpiece
>characteristics can be supported by measurements, which would still require
>several old samples, not just a single one, to be available.
>>
Your point is well taken and certainly applicable to the Vandoren case. In
the case of the Selmer C*, however, the facing stayed basically the same
but the chamber was dramatically and clearly VISIBLY altered from the
previous design, external contours modified, and the "S-80" designation
added, to indicate that this was, indeed, a new and different model. What
nobody here can figure out is WHY! (Give us back the C* "Classic!")

Bill Hausmann NEW ADDRESS: bhausmann1@-----.com
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