Klarinet Archive - Posting 000019.txt from 2008/01

From: "Bill Foss" <billfoss47@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Mouthpiece Suggestions Please
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:26:12 -0500

Try:

http://www.beechler.com/

for Beechler mouthpieces.

Bill Foss
US Army Retired
USC Aiken, Woodwind Professor
Director of Bands, Aiken Prep

----- Original Message -----
From: <pullacreep@-----.com>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 4:09 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] Mouthpiece Suggestions Please

> 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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