Klarinet Archive - Posting 000654.txt from 2000/08

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Mouthpiece boring?
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 18:46:25 -0400

At 05:03 PM 8/22/2000 -0400, Karl Krelove wrote:
(I wrote)
>> 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!")
>>
>Well, that's a different story, of course, than the 5RV, especially since
>the new mouthpieces are identified. I remember now (I didn't keep the posts)
>that these are now square-bored (or something similar) instead of round. I'd
>forgotten that part.
>
>Don't the big (mass-production) mouthpiece companies mostly regard the model
>name as a facing designation, anyway? I'm thinking of Vandoren, Meyer, maybe
>Selmer, the "player name" brands (Gigliotti, Marcellus, Genussa, etc...).
>Seems like maybe the intent in the case of the C* was to emphasize the
>retained facing measurements on a basically new blank. I take it (I'm sorry,
>as I said before, I really wasn't paying close attention) the old style C*
>is no longer available new?
>
In most cases the facing is the only, or at least the most significant,
change from one mouthpiece model to another from the same manufacturer,
unless a different series is specified, like Vandoren's Java, etc. This is
no doubt why my results with Vandoren clarinet mouthpieces are so
consistent. Regardless of facing, they ALL play flat in the altissimo FOR
ME, whereas other makers' mouthpieces do not. Some sort of interaction
between their chamber/baffle and my oral cavity, I suppose. Pity, because
I like their sound.

Sadly, the very desireable Selmer arch-chamber design is now available ONLY
in their CLASSICAL metal mouthpieces, at beaucoup bucks.

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