Klarinet Archive - Posting 000368.txt from 2010/09

From: "Bill Hausmann" <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Vinegar turns mpc green
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 13:50:22 -0400

Professional-grade Selmer mouthpieces have always been hard rod rubber, and
still are. The formulation may have changed slightly - I understand changes
were made to the process for environmental reasons - but the material is
basically the same.

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karl Krelove [mailto:karlkrelove@-----.net]
> Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2010 10:53 AM
> To: 'The Klarinet Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [kl] Vinegar turns mpc green
>
> I have a feeling all of this (including the responses that have
> followed)
> depends a little on the actual material the mouthpiece is made of. I've
> been
> using straight vinegar to clean my mouthpieces for 40 years - many of
> those
> mouthpieces necessarily older than your 1998-9 Selmer and definitely
> made of
> hard rubber of some kind. Do you know what your C85 is made of? I'd
> have
> assumed it was some kind of rubber, but I don't really know what Selmer
> was
> using in the late 1990s. The white deposits have always come off of my
> mouthpieces easily with vinegar, and I've never turned a mouthpiece
> green.
>
> Karl
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jennifer Jones [mailto:helen.jennifer@-----.com]
> Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2010 1:13 AM
> To: The Klarinet Mailing List
> Subject: [kl] Vinegar turns mpc green
>
> For the record:
>
> A ~1 hour soak in a 5% solution of room temperature (~78F) distilled
> white vinegar did not remove the white/tan deposits and turned my
> Selmer C85 mouthpiece green. In addition to turning the region below
> the liquid green, fumes also turned the portion above the liquid line
> green. The portion of the submerged facing also became paler. My
> mouthpiece now has a vinegar induced "suntan". The cork was not
> submerged.
>
>
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