Klarinet Archive - Posting 000811.txt from 2000/11

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] new jazz clarinet?
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 23:38:38 -0500

At 07:29 PM 11/24/2000 -0800, Rhea Jacobs wrote:
> When I took up the clarinet again after 37 years, I found that the
mouthpiece
>I'd used had been replaced by one of the cousins who used the instrument
in the
>intervening years. I didn't much like it, and my teacher suggested a Vandoren
>B45, which I subsequently bought. I had the same problem you had: it was too
>large for the barrel. At my local music store, we tried every B-flat clarinet
>mouthpiece in the store, with the same results.
>
>Soon thereafter, I bought a terrific R-13 on eBay (after doing due
diligence on
>the seller, checking his website, etc.) and am using the Vandoren on it. I'm
>still a bit upset about not being able to swap out the mouthpiece on my old
>Selmer, to which I am very attached.

Take your Selmer to a repair tech and have him/her ream out the mouthpiece
socket on your barrel joint a little. It has probably shrunk or may even
have gotten slightly out of round over the years. They are supposed to be
of standard size, and are originally made that way at the factory.

Bill Hausmann bhausmann1@-----.com
451 Old Orchard Drive http://homepages.go.com/~zoot14/zoot14.html
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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