Klarinet Archive - Posting 000566.txt from 2001/08

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] crystal mouthpieces
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 07:52:17 -0400

At 10:15 PM 8/30/2001 -0500, Kevin Callahan wrote:
>(I wrote)
> > Be that as it may, the fact that it is clear is primarily gimmick. They
> > could have made it black and it would have played the same.
>
>Or marble as the Vandoran mouthpieces are? Or purple? Or Lime green? And it
>won't make a bit off difference?

That's right. The Vito Dazzlers all come with matching mouthpieces (red,
green, blue, white, yellow) that are identical except for the
color. Black is, of course, traditional (and clarinetists are NOTORIOUS
traditionalists), but the white Brilhart mouthpieces with black tooth
inserts were quite popular for a while. They don't make the white ones
anymore, but the black ones with white inserts are still available. It is
just a style thing -- if the white ones played any better, people would
have kept buying them.

Bill Hausmann bhausmann1@-----.com
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