Klarinet Archive - Posting 000365.txt from 2005/01

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Titanic (on-topic, really)
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 00:17:27 -0500

At 11:47 PM 1/22/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>That Benny Goodman clarinet was shown with the mouthpiece with the
>reed facing opposite the register key. I thought it was assembled by
>someone who didn't know what they were doing. People actually used to
>play with the reed touching the upper lip? That's the craziest thing
>I've ever heard of.

While it was common to play chalumeau/clarinet with the reed on the top of
the mouthpiece in the VERY early days, it has long been standard to play
with the reed on the lower side as we do now. However, non-musician eBay
listers, especially those selling saxophones, seem to automatically default
to the reed-up position when displaying their wares. No one knows why, but
I saw one knowledgeable seller even do it that way on purpose, and jokingly
refer to that placement as being the apparently traditional eBay manner.

Bill Hausmann

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

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