Klarinet Archive - Posting 000485.txt from 2005/06

From: Ellis Johnson <ellisjohnson@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Reeds, Mouthpieces, Ligatures, and Braces
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 23:50:16 -0400

I have three different questions.

First off, I play a lot of jazz on my clarinet and I was flipping
through the woodwind catalouge recently and saw all of the Vandoren
Jazz sax reeds and was wondering why they don't make some for
clarinet. Then I saw a couple different jazz reeds for clarinet.=20
There are the Pete Fountain Marcas and the Brancher Jazz clarinet
reeds. I was wondering if anyone has any experience with these. Im
currently playing on #3.5 Bluebox Vandorens on a vintage Selmer D
mouthpiece.

Part Two. Something happened tp my old selmer D (which is very
special to me because my teacher, William O. Smith, gave it to me). I
opened up my case at school one day about 2 weeks ago and noticed a
chip in my reed that hadn't been there a couple hours before and when
I looked behind the reed, there is a very tiny chip (I would acctually
call it more of a ding. we are talking 10ths of a millimeter) out of
the tip of the mouthpiece in the center. I know that this isn't good,
and so I played on my Gregory Smith Kaspar instead because I had a
show later that day. Im wondering if it is possible to fix my
mouthpiece and who I would go to to have it repaired. This is a very
special mouthpiece to me. It plays wonderfully, and it also has
sentimental value.

Thirdly, for my graduation from high school, my grandmother gave me
some money and said to get something for my clarinet, so I bought one
of the "Ultimate Ligatures" from Woodwind Brasswind.=20
http://www.wwbw.com/Ultimate-Ligature-Clarinet-Ligature-i80328.music=20
Anyway, I love it. The sound is amazing, and I feel like I have much
more control. I was wondering if there is anything I should know
about this ligature.

Oh, and I forgot the last question. My braces were taken off
yesterday, and I picked up my clarinet and found that things were very
different. The transition to braces was hard, but I have had 3 and a
half years to get used to them, and now I have until tuesday to get
used to not having them. If anyone has some helpful tips, that would
be greatly appreciated.

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Ellis Johnson

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