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Author: Bill
Date: 2006-09-12 22:38
Anyone ever play a "Crown," made by Woodwind Co. Has a patent number on the side. Plays the throat tones almost a quarter tone down (not really, but boy is it flat in the throat).
But that tone! I guess it helps that Terry Guidetti refaced it.
Bill.
Bill Fogle
Ellsworth, Maine
(formerly Washington, DC)
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Author: Alseg
Date: 2006-09-13 17:19
He has a way of achieving great coloration in the sound...a real artist and gentleman.....
and he is doing the Copland concerto in October with a symph. group.
Former creator of CUSTOM CLARINET TUNING BARRELS by DR. ALLAN SEGAL
-Where the Sound Matters Most(tm)-
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Author: RodRubber
Date: 2006-09-13 19:55
Bill,
Very cool website,
i wish i had a copy of that Anthony Gigliotti Selmer poster.
Thanks,
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Author: Alseg
Date: 2006-09-13 20:53
Doesn't it look like those sports posters that were done by Leroi Neimann and were popular in the 70s?
That poster was avail on "that auction site" and I snatched up one (it is size of a page) and framed it along with one of Blayman-Drucker-Weber done for Buffet (entitled "first chair at Lincoln Center") and another advertisement, plus a pic of Tony showing the new horn to Ormandy. The collage hangs over my computer.
Didja ever notice:[smile] Once a performer has the "official" pic done for a bio, it never changes. In the playbills for an opera, the diva looks like an ingenue, but when on stage....suddenly aged 30 years and 100lbs. Tempis fugit...except for artist photos.
Former creator of CUSTOM CLARINET TUNING BARRELS by DR. ALLAN SEGAL
-Where the Sound Matters Most(tm)-
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2006-09-14 13:05
Bill - Please give us that Patent # so that I and others may look it up on USPTO.gov. It may have some info not otherwise available. TKS, Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: Bill
Date: 2006-09-14 13:24
Cool - thanks Don. The mouthpiece says:
PATENT PROCESS No. 1452953
The branding is:
CROWN
New York
Made by the Woodwind Co.
Bill.
Bill Fogle
Ellsworth, Maine
(formerly Washington, DC)
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2006-09-14 14:23
TKS, Bill, I took a quickie look, it is new to me, to a Bercioux, Machine for Facing mps, issued 1923, prob your Crown was faced/refaced by it, might make interesting reading here and on the Yahoo Mouthpiecework site. Will look more when I have time. Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: Bill
Date: 2006-10-03 23:27
This is some kind of miracle mouthpiece. It has special powers.
I played-tested four mouthpieces this evening with my P-series Selmer Centered Tone: (1) an HS* "oval," (2) another HS* "Oval," (3) a B* "oval," and (4) a wide-bore c. 1950s Ch. Chedeville. Keep in mind that #1-3 (all Selmer mouthpieces) were MADE for the CT-era Selmer clarinet. All four required that the barrel be pulled out substantially, and even then showed poor intonation (with a #3 VD blue box reed) above clarion A and below fundamental C. The Ched was the worst.
My "Crown" mouthpiece played the scale (with the same reed) in as nearly perfect intonation as I have seen in my clarinets in some time. And this with the barrel not pulled out at all. The upper clarion was FINE, no sharpness, and even the notorious fundamental low A was not terribly sharp (~3 cents).
OK, this one gets buried with me. This thing is magic.
Bill.
Bill Fogle
Ellsworth, Maine
(formerly Washington, DC)
Post Edited (2006-10-03 23:28)
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