Klarinet Archive - Posting 000056.txt from 2002/10

From: "Rebecca Brennan" <rjbrennan1221@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] cleaning an old mouthpiece
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 19:12:54 -0400

you could use fingernail polish to make it a pretty color. A clarinetist in
my band painted her mouthpiece this pink color with nail polish. I think it
looks stupid, but everyone else loved it, and nod all the reed players have
painted mouthpieces except for me. Mine is still black. All of them use the
ones that came with their instrumets, which are NEMCs and Geo M. Bundys.

There is one exception though. One of the clarinetist's mouthpiece is old,
but is says "B45" and it sounds good. I play a VanDoren B45 on my Bb, and
they play the same. Would her mouthpiece be a VanDoren. She wants to know
really bad. For some reason it is important to her. She's asked me every day
for a week if I have found out whether it is a VanDoren.

She, like the rest of the band, is is also one of those people who think the
strength of the reed measures the strength of the musician. I use 2 1/2s
with my B45 and I get made fun of. I just look at them and ask them why they
sound so stuffy and I sound so clear.

I don't think I could stand nail polish on my mouthpiece. Wouldn't that
taste horrible? I'd ask if it would chip in their mouth when they bit down,
but I already asked if they bit down. Not one of them.

-Rebecca

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