Klarinet Archive - Posting 001183.txt from 2000/12

From: "Wolman, Kenneth" <KWolman@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] new
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 15:19:25 -0500

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Bush [SMTP:rbushidioglot@-----.com]
> I'm not at all surprised to hear you say that a Fobes Debut plays better than a
> Vandoren B-45. I've played, sampled, tested dozens of B-45 mouthpieces. Never
> found one I liked. Found several, though, that played grossly out of tune.
>
[On this new job I'm stuck with preconfigured Outlook, blue print and all for replies, so there we are...I hope it is not a problem.]

I had a similar experience trying a Hite Premiere after a B-45. "Where has this been all my life??" It seems to be a really fine mouthpiece. The B-45 cannot seem to match up with any reed I've ever tried to put on it.

> I have played the Fobes mouthpiece. I'm totally impressed with it. Although I
> haven't tried everything on the market in that price range, I would be very
> surprised if ANYTHING could be better. Would be interested in trying your
> recommendation of the Legere 2.5 on the Debut.
>
Well, when I left Deutsche Bank in May with a lot of severance money in my pocket I DID invest on a whim in a totally unnecessary toy for someone who is a non-professional, a Pyne/Clarion Signature mouthpiece, medium facing. My old Selmer had come with an ancient Selmer HS* that I suspect was beaten into the ground. I got rid of the thing in favor of the P/C. It's an unbelievable piece of work. You put a Grand Concert #3 on this thing and sound about 10 times better than you are:-).

Ken

Kenneth Wolman
Merrill Lynch/DCSS
570 Washington Street, NYC
212-647-2496
>
> Tski1128@-----.com wrote:
>
> > In a message dated 12/22/00 8:35:11 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> > bhausmann1@-----.com writes:
> >
> > > The B-45 is a very popular mouthpiece, but like all hand-finished
> > >
> >
> > The last dozen or so Vandorens that I looked at were so obviously machine
> > faced ( Rails you could land a plane on ) as to make them little more that
> > very expensive blanks. I'm making my own mouthpieces on zinner blanks right
> > now, and a bunch of Washington pros are playing on them. But, I start all my
> > student on a Fobes Debut mouthpiece. A 2.5-3 legere works great on them and
> > the whole set up is under 45 bucks. these mouthpieces a so much better than
> > the vandorens, and way less expensive. I once played a concert on this rig
> > with the U>S Army Field band, I left my other mouthpiece in the double case,
> > And it played really great.
> >
> > Tom Puwalski , the artist formerly known as Sarge
>
>
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