Klarinet Archive - Posting 000114.txt from 2005/04

From: Oliver Seely <oseely@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Crystal mouthpieces
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 14:34:37 -0400

Indeed they do, and it took me years to discover that they chip sometimes
with the slightest contact with the edge of a metal ligature. Metal is
evidently sufficiently unforgiving to produce a shock wave big enough to do
the dirty deed. I went through about 3 Selmer S crystal mouthpieces, never
knowing why they were inexplicably chipping on me until one day when I
lightly contacted the thin top edge with my ligature and I saw the tiny
chip which was produced. I haven't had another chip produced since then
and it is about 5 years since that happened. I do have two Mitchell Luria
crystal mouthpieces sitting in a box waiting for the fateful day, however.

Oliver

At 09:56 AM 4/8/2005, you wrote:
>Crystal mouthpieces don't seem to wear, BUT they do change rather rapidly
>when dropped.
>
>Clark
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