Klarinet Archive - Posting 000062.txt from 2001/09

From: "Dee D. Hays" <deehays@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Dating a Noblet
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 13:42:06 -0400

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From: "William Wright" <Bilwright@-----.net>
Subject: Re: [kl] Dating a Noblet

> ... The mouthpiece that comes
> with most clarinets is not a good one. I've never figured out why this
> is. Shouldn't a clarinet manufacturer know what is required to make a
> good mouthpiece? But if you asked all the clarinetists on this list
> whether they play the mouthpiece that came with their instrument, I
> suspect that 90% of them would say, "NO!!!" My YCL-20, for example,
> sounds miserable with Yamaha's mouthpiece. But when I put my Fobes
> mouthpiece on it instead, playing s a pleasure again.
>
> Cheers, and don't let the humor bother you. In fact I almost posted
> the same 'witticism'.

I'd say that clarinet design and mouthpiece design are complex enough and
different enough that each is a specialty of its own. So it would be rather
unusual for a company to be good at both.

Dee Hays
Michigan

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