Klarinet Archive - Posting 001169.txt from 2000/10

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Saxophonist problems.
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 18:26:31 -0400

At 10:24 PM 10/23/2000 +0200, Charles Schneider wrote:
>Just 2 questions:
>
>- i have try several mouthpieces, maybe somebody have a
>subjection for some models that are appreciate by the saxophonists.
>It seem to me that the facing is often "to short for me" .
>But i'm not shure of that. An opening of 120 seems to be ok for me.
>Reeds 3 and half.
>We haven't lot of choice here, my best experience was a Lomax but his opening
>was very very big. The closest models was sold.
>
120 is fairly open for a clarinet mouthpiece.

>- i like to know if a mouthpiece from USA works on my Festival
Buffet-Crampon?
>My teacher is not shure of that. Diapason maybe?
>and (in french) : "differente PERCE " on the clarinets from USA ?
>After reading lot of articles, i haven't seen anything about this,
>i just like to be shure of that.
>
Over here they work just fine on Buffet clarinets. The only danger might
be in tuning, since here bands usually play at A=440, some orchestras a
little higher. Other than that, many of us play French mouthpieces here
anyway, particularly Vandorens and Selmers.

Bill Hausmann bhausmann1@-----.com
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Essexville, MI 48732 ICQ UIN 4862265

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is too loud.

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