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RE: jewel mouthpiece

Author: Kevin Bowman  Date:   1999-02-02 20:02 The Jewel mpc is made by a guy local to the Detroit Area (I forgot his name - perhaps someone else can help me here). I purchased a Jewel "Concert" mpc for clarint about a year ago. I played on it for a few weeks and decided it was better than my previous Vandorne B45 but still not quite what I was looking for. I settled on a Vandoren 5RVLyre-13. The Jewel is a decent mpc. I think they are all hand-faced my the maker and I did notice some inconsistancies between various mpc's when I was trying them out (I tried about 6 of them). The mpc I finally chose produced a good tone but did not help my tuning problems the way the Vandoren-13 did. I *DO* use a jewel concert on my tenor sax. It provides excellent stability with even marginal reeds. I used to play on a Brilhart LevelAir 3 metal mpc (and still do once in awhile) but that mpc required a near-perfect reed and I just don't have the time to work on reeds for all my instruments (I concentrate on the clarinet). Maybe I'll go back to the metal when I get some Legere reeds I would recommend trying out a few Jewels. You might like it. Kevin Bowman Clarinet & Saxophone Instructor, Rochester Conservatory of Music, Rochester, MI and Saxophones, Clarinet, & Keys, B-Side Blues Project

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