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Author: vintschevski
Date: 2021-07-12 12:02
Does anybody have any experience of playing a Finch Cusack clarinet mouthpiece? I have stumbled across one on offer on an auction website and it looks radically different from most mouthpieces - I'd recommend searching for it (easy to find), the pictures are very interesting.
Apparently it was produced in the 1980s and it comes with a titanium reed. In fact, I get the impression that it is intended to work only with such a reed, but I'm not sure of that. Another interesting feature is that it uses O-rings instead of cork, so overall it seems a design ahead of its time. Since I've never heard of it before, I assume that it didn't meet with much success.
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Author: vintschevski
Date: 2021-07-14 11:40
Can you expand on that, johnwesley? Weird it certainly appears, but in what sense exactly did you find it "not practical"? Are you mainly referring to the requirement of a titanium reed? Did you use only the titanium reed when you tried it or did you try a cane reed as well? What sort of tone did the mouthpiece produce? I'd love to hear some more details from you.
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Author: johnwesley
Date: 2021-07-15 01:59
Never played one and don't want to get into pissing match due to opinion. My thoughts are it was made explicitly for use with a titanium reed. Where do you get them? Rubber O rings have a tendency wear out, lose their elasticity and stretch with age. In my opinion the contraption is a gimmick. Consequently they aren't made anymore.
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