Klarinet Archive - Posting 000020.txt from 2008/01

From: "Curtis Bennett" <curtis.bennett@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Mouthpiece Suggestions Please
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:33:55 -0500

I've no personal experience with them - but I sat next to a guy with
one of the crystal mouthpieces one time. He was an accomplished
player in his own right - but HOLY CRAP, that thing was loud.

On Jan 2, 2008 3:26 PM, Bill Foss <billfoss47@-----.net> wrote:
> 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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