Klarinet Archive - Posting 000643.txt from 2004/10

From: "Kathy Beatty" <kbeatty@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: genuine French Grenadier wood
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 15:58:30 -0400

Lelia Loban wrote:

> =2E=2E=2E=2E=2E The mouthpiece, in
> fine condition, is a hard rubber Selmer HS, marked, "Made in France=2E"=20=

> =2E=2E=2E=2E=2E=2E but the original
> owner's parents did well to buy him a better mouthpiece than the rubbishy
> plastic Bundy mpc from the fifties when they bought the instrument=2E

You're probably giving them undeserved credit=2E I grew up in NJ, and our ba=
nd
director in Jr=2E High had us all buy Selmer HS* mouthpieces=2E This would h=
ave been
in 1966 or 1967=2E He acquired a bunch of them and sold them to us at a real=
ly=20
low price - I'm thinking $5=2E00, but I don't really remember=2E My guess is=
that he was not the only band director around at the time doing this=2E

I still have that mouthpiece and still play on it occasionally=2E The logo h=
as
nearly faded to oblivion, though=2E

Kathy Beatty

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