Klarinet Archive - Posting 000699.txt from 2000/08

From: "Daniel Stover" <kasparguy@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Mouthpiece boring?
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 14:09:43 -0400

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From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.com>
Subject: RE: [kl] Mouthpiece boring?
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 06:51:55 -0400

At 06:32 PM 8/22/2000 CDT, Daniel Stover wrote:
>I like the Soloists, but can never afford one when i have the chance to
buy
>one. I own one of the Soloist 'style" mouthpieces for alto and tenor, but
>play a Rousseau 'New Classic' model on alto. The Rousseau has the similat
>'horseshoe' chamber but a much lower baffle (there's no square side
opposite
>of the 'horseshoe', it's flush with the bore wall) The Selmer just doesn't
>have enough punch for me (plus my partner is borrowing it until he gets a
>mouthpiece that works better with his 1934 Conn.
>
Interaction between mouthpiece and instrument can be critical. I have
found that the C*, particularly the S-80 version, does not work
particularly well with my OTHER alto sax, a 1930 Martin "Typewriter." The
intonation gets squirrelly. A metal Otto Link, with its large open
chamber, normal for that time period, suits it far better. I have read
that this often happens; that on saxophones you should use a mouthpiece
design from the period of the instrument for best results. The
Soloist-style C*, although I might really rather have a C**, gives a
wonderful sound on my Yamaha YTS-52 tenor, though.

I have an old Selmer from the 20's with the metal ring around the shank and
an almost identical LeLandais mouthpiece from the same period that are being
worked on to try and make playable that i'm gonna let him have if they are
playable.
hmmmm.. to tie this in with Klarinet.. :-)
I have a few old jazz clarinet mouthpieces. An Otto Link, Bob Dukoff, MC
Gregory, Claude Lakey, and a couple of the old white Brilhart Tonalins. The
Brilharts sound like classical mouthpiece but just a little brighter. The
Link is very much a jazz mouthpiece. Very loud and quite edgy. The Gregory
and Lakey are way sharp and way flat, respectively. My partner has an old
Buffet from the 30's that i might try the Gregory on even though there would
still be a 20+ year difference between the horn and the mouthpiece...
*shrug*
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