Klarinet Archive - Posting 000261.txt from 2003/08

From: "Patricia A. Smith" <patricia@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Mouthpiece patches, stiff upper lip
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 18:10:29 -0400

Lelia Loban wrote:

>They also mess with my brain, because for me there's a bit of a distracting
>yuck-factor in feeling somebody else's tooth marks, even though the
>mouthpiece is thoroughly clean. (I would much rather think about the music
>than involuntarily imagine the unknown original owner as a mouthful of
>rotting brown fang-stumps loose in their festering gums....) I don't fill
>the grooves because I don't want to swallow plastic if/when the fillers
>detach from the mouthpiece.
>

Lelia, are you SURE you haven't authored a clarinet-related horror story
somewhere down the line?

Patricia Smith
*who will, more than likely, never want to play on another person's
mouthpiece EVER AGAIN after reading this!*

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