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Author: ANNETTE
Date: 2001-02-23 19:36
WHILE MY DAUGHTER'S CLARINET WAS BEING REPAIRED WE BORROWED MY SISTER'S R-13, THAT HAD BEEN SITTING AROUND IN ITS CASE FOR THE PAST 20 PLUS YEARS. SHE HAD A MOUTHPIECE MADE BY DAVID PORTNOY AND IN SMALL LETTERS D 88. DOES ANYBODY KNOW ABOUT THIS BRAND? MY DAUGHTER IS CURRENTLY USING A CLARK FOBES.
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Author: Ken Shaw
Date: 2001-02-23 22:04
Annette -
The mouthpiece brand is Bernard Portnoy, usually marked "BPortnoy." He was principal in the Philadelphia Orchestra, I believe in the early 1950s, following Ralph McLane and preceding Anthony Gigliotti. He taught at Curtis and Juilliard, and I think he is now retired.
His mouthpieces are pretty good quality. I have a very early one, from 1961, which has the name stamp in a script typeface. These were hand-made by a well known maker named Miller and have some value. The later ones have the name stamped in heavy squarish letters, and I believe they are machine-made and not hand-finished. These should play about the same as the Fobes student mouthpiece, but probably not as well as the Fobes hand-made "San Francisco" model.
There's a lot of variation in machine-made mouthpieces. Some play very well, but others do not. Your daughter should check the intonation with a tuner and listen hard to how each mouthpiece sounds.
Best regards.
Ken Shaw
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Author: ANNETTE
Date: 2001-02-26 15:30
THANK YOU FOR THE INFORMATION! YOU ARE RIGHT, THE NAME IS WRITTEN DIAGONALLY IN SCRIPT. MY DAUGHTER DOES PLAY ON A CLARK FOBES SAN FRANCISCO MOUTHPIECE WITH HER R-13. SHE MADE A ONE ON HER UIL SOLO, THE FIRST MOVEMENT OF MOZART'S CLARINET CONCERTO. I REALLY APPRECIATE ALL OF THE KNOWLEDGE I'VE PICKED UP READING THE BB.
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