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Author: Liquorice
Date: 2003-03-19 15:18
I really enjoy the playing of some British clarinet players (eg. Richard Hosford, Michael Collins, Andrew Marriner, Anthony Pay, John McCaw, Gervase de Peyer) I was just wondering which mouthpieces were popular in Britain, and which mouthpieces these great players use?
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Author: Hiroshi
Date: 2003-03-19 15:29
Peter Eaton? Needs big bore sizes for british big bore horns. You can find his homepage easily.
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Author: Liquorice
Date: 2003-03-19 16:18
Sorry, just to clarify- I'm interested to know what mouthpieces players use in Britain, not just about British mouthpiece makers. Hope that makes sense?
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Author: David
Date: 2003-03-19 16:38
I used Boosey and Hawkes 926 mp on my Bassi and Imperials for years, and I've just discovered, and worship, Morgan RM10s.
David
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Author: jez
Date: 2003-03-19 16:57
IMHO the best British mp-maker was Mike Meyerowitz but sadly he died a few years ago. I still have a couple of his mouthpieces and have had molded copies made of them.
A new maker, Alan Andrews, is reaching the same levels of quality and I actually prefer the ones I've now got from him to Mike's. They're still in prototype but should be more readily available soon.
A lot of British players use Vandoren, B4013 being quite common, and there are plenty Eatons, Morgans, Hites, Weinbergs etc. around.
Last time I saw de Peyer he was using a wide-bore Rossi with an old Boosey & Hawkes mp.
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Author: beejay
Date: 2003-03-20 09:59
I'm British, although I live in France. I use a mouthpiece made by Ed Pillinger on my basset horn, and it is everything a good mouthpiece should be. I use a Charles Bay on my soprano clarinet.
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Author: jez
Date: 2003-03-20 12:29
Ken,
Ackerman makes moulded copies of other peoples mouthpieces and doesn't, as far as I know, actually make any of his own design.
The copies are very good and you have a wide choice of other people's originals to choose from. Some people imagine that having a different material (resin instead of rubber) gives a difference in the sound, but I've not noticed this effect much.
I've never seen anyone using a Pillinger. Can someone tell us what they're like?
jez
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Author: graham
Date: 2003-03-21 12:35
I use Pillinger on my bass, basset horn, and regular clarinets. For the bass and clarinets the thing he does which interested me is make them to an early 20th century design which fits in with my instruments from that period. The basset horn mouthpiece is a close lay (1.3 mm) alto clarinet mouthpiece that makes the instrument sound closer to a narrower bore basset horn (people have asked me: is it narrow? whereas it is 17.2mm which is wide enough to need the alto mouthpiece). But Ed makes a range of designs, based largely around F1 (for a fat sound), and F2 (for a focused sound). So it depends what sort of mouthpiece you want and he does a design that will suit you.
He is too cheap really, only £80 per normal mouthpiece. Certainly worth trying them to see what you think. His site is good, so search on pillingermouthpieces to get to it.
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