Klarinet Archive - Posting 000163.txt from 2011/06

From: "Karl Krelove" <kkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Mouthpiece Facings and Breath Span
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 11:49:53 -0400

Those are interesting charts, especially since I'm not familiar with his
mouthpieces over here. Even 10 years ago .75 mm would have been, I think,
eccentrically close in the U.S. even with the 20mm curve. But why, except
maybe to expel unused stale air, would a player need to breathe more often
with the smaller tip opening? One of the things I envy most as a clarinetist
about oboists (with their much smaller aperture reed) is that so many can do
their copy of the slow movement solo in the Schubert 8th in one breath.
Maybe I misread what Deplus said, or maybe he said it in French and the
translation isn't clear.

It's really only idle curiosity on my part - I need to breathe in those
spots with or without anyone's permission. :-) I found Jean Marie Paul (with
no hyphen) on Facebook, but can't tell if it's the same person who wrote the
article (I've left a message asking).

Karl

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joseph Wakeling [mailto:joseph.wakeling@-----.net]
> Sent: Monday, June 20, 2011 10:19 AM
> To: klarinet@-----.com
> Subject: Re: [kl] Mouthpiece Facings and Breath Span
>
> On 06/18/2011 10:42 PM, Karl Krelove wrote:
> > (1) What is he contrasting a 20th century practice of using closed
> > mouthpieces to? The piece was composed and first played in the late
> 19th,
> > but since he's writing (Mr. Paul implies that these comments were
> written
> > for this article) 11 years into the 21st century, could he be
> comparing then
> > to now?
>
> I remember Ed Pillinger telling me, circa 2002-2003, that there was a
> growing trend for more and more open mouthpieces.
>
> If you look at his facing list today:
> http://www.pillingermouthpieces.co.uk/page8.html
>
> ... and contrast with that of 10 years ago:
> http://web.archive.org/web/20010219204854/http://www.pillingermouthpiec
> es.co.uk/Catalogue.html
>
> ... you can see that the upper bound on mouthpiece tip opening has
> grown
> by about 0.2mm -- doesn't sound much, but a lot in mouthpiece terms ...
> :-)

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