Klarinet Archive - Posting 000602.txt from 2004/11

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] An Eb quandry
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 01:29:11 -0500

At 11:45 PM 11/20/2004 -0500, Curtis Bennett wrote:
>...So, I took it to a music store (Luyben's in Kansas City) and asked if
>I could use a mouthpiece just to try out the instrument. They were
>happy to oblige. I ended up buying a new mouthpiece for my Bb, so I
>ended up making it financially worth their while, anyway, so it was
>all good. Anyway, the clarinet didn't play very well. I'd go over
>the break, and the thing would just vapor lock. No sound would come
>out. I figured maybe it just needed a tune up and it'd be ok....

I just had a thought. It is POSSIBLE that the tech's mouthpiece (if he did
play test it) was looser in the barrel than yours. If yours has thicker
cork, it just MIGHT open the crack a little, where the tech's mouthpiece
does not. FWIW.

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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