Klarinet Archive - Posting 000281.txt from 2006/10

From: "Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: Kinda OT: Saxophone Mouthpieces?
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 08:32:48 -0400

(Getting even farther off topic) Bill,

I only have experience with one Meyer 5M tenor sax mouthpiece (the one I
bought years ago). I didn't try any others out when I bought it - I needed
it in a hurry and I ordered it from the vendor that was supplying our school
loaner program at the time. I find that it plays very sharp - I have to pull
it almost to the end of the neck to play a concert Bb in tune and, I guess
because of how it sits around the neck that far back, the low register gets
progressively sharper and unresponsive. I thought it was the instrument (a
very old Conn) until a year or so ago when I got hold of a couple of S80s
and a new C* and none had the same problems - tuning and low register are
like a different horn. I also own a single Meyer 5M alto mouthpiece, which I
use interchangeably with an old C*, and I have no problem with either on the
alto (but the Meyer plays louder). In your experience is this sharpness a
general problem with Meyer 5x tenor mouthpieces or is it just mine?

Karl

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Hausmann [mailto:bhausmann1@-----.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 11:21 PM
>
> On alto the 5M is standard. For tenor probably a 6M. I
> believe the Meyer
> facing is shorter, and the tip will be more open even with
> the 5M, so for
> both reasons expect to have to back off the reed strength.
>

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