Klarinet Archive - Posting 000049.txt from 2005/10

From: kurtheisig@-----.net
Subj: Re: [kl] Kaspar Mouthpiece with Solid Silver Facing
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 06:47:43 -0400

Lots of hard rubber mouthpieces with inlays were made back when.....there EXISTS a solid gold Kaspar with a platinum inlay!!!!! I played it in 1968 the year I became a mouthpiece maker. That summer the leader af a band I played in---solo clarinet---studied with Kaspar (the younger) and acquired this mouthpiece. I was the lead alto. We both became mouthpiece makers the same summer. Artie Shaw BEGGED him for this mouthpiece--as he had begged Kaspar before him.

Kurt Heisig
Mouthpiece Maker
Heisig Saxophones & Flutes
(831) 425 - 5658

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom.Henson@-----.com
Sent: Oct 4, 2005 7:48 AM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: [kl] Kaspar Mouthpiece with Solid Silver Facing

It is the
most unusual Kaspar I have seen, and I have only seen one other like it.
The entire tip, rails, and table are solid silver and beautifully worked
into the rubber Chedeville blank. The workmanship is so good that it is
almost unbelievable.

If anyone has ever seen, heard, or has any knowledge about this, please
let me know. I am just really curious about it. I was also told that
Frank Kaspar learned to fashion a mouthpiece like this from his days
working for Goldbeck, and that Goldbeck had experimented with this as
well.

Tom Henson

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