Klarinet Archive - Posting 000018.txt from 2008/01

From: pullacreep@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] Mouthpiece Suggestions Please
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:09:36 -0500

Any of the Beechler Clarinet mouthpieces will give you all the sound
you need. I am not sure they are made anymore. I was down in Mexico
City for a month a while back and heard many Mariachi Bands and was
able to corner several clarinet players and that is what they were
playnig...loud, loud, loud.

Hope that helps.

Bill Payne

-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Fay <kevin.fay.home@-----.net>
To: klarinet@-----.org
Sent: Tue, 1 Jan 2008 5:37 pm
Subject: [kl] Mouthpiece Suggestions Please

I have a rather large collection of clarinet mouthpieces, filling up
most of
a drawer. I would feel comfortable playing an orchestral concert on at
least a half dozen of them.

. . . but this is not my immediate need.

I also play in a rather an eclectic loosely-organized group whose
repertoire
changes a great deal depending on what we've been hired to play. For
example, last month we played at an Argentine tango festival. Lacking
access
to bandoneons - and anyone with the ability to play them - we covered
the
parts with doubled oboes and (in my case) a C clarinet.

Last night, we were hired by a local ballroom dance studio to play swing
standards, with a dash of Xavier Cugat, finishing well after midnight
with a
set of 70's and 80's tunes that must have been arranged by Tommy Velour
or
Nick the Lounge Singer. (John Denver, the Carpenters etc. - even a
Velveeta
cheese arrangement of The Hustle.) This was a *great* gig - the dancers
loved us and we got paid. We were even given champagne along with
everyone
else to toast the new year.

The only sound reinforcement used was for the bass player. We balance
nicely; our brass players don't overblow so we don't have to mike the
saxophones. Nevertheless, on a couple of the tunes the clarinet did get
buried, esp. on the Dixieland stuff. There's only so much that one
clarinet
can do when faced with two trombones, three trumpets and the rest of
the sax
section on a shout chorus.

I do not need a "good" mouthpiece - I have many of them. What I need
here
is a *LOUD* mouthpiece. Something appropriate for a street parade, say
in
New Orleans or Mumbai. We may actually have a street parade coming up,
so I
can use some help here.

Any suggestions?

kjf

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