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Author: john gibson
Date: 2003-05-14 03:40
Okay...just wanted you to know I got a POMARICO crystal mpc, and boy does it BLOW! The folks over in Italy sure know their "stuff". Got the DIAMOND open+....use a Mitchell Lurie premium 2 1/2 and "what a sound"!!!
John Gibson
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Author: sfalexi
Date: 2003-05-14 03:43
Congrats! Those are (from what I hear) pretty darned good mouthpieces. I tried a few (very few) and didn't particularly care for them. Maybe I just got a few bad ones in a batch. I tried the emerald (most closed).
Careful not to drop it . . . ![[wink]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie3.gif)
Alexi
US Army Japan Band
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Author: Ralph G
Date: 2003-05-14 15:06
I have the emerald mellow. It's decent, though after more extensive usage (and, of course, well past the return date) I've realized a more open one might have served me better. It's a good backup, though.
Have you noticed you can't push it all the way into the barrel socket? Mine sticks out just a tad -- although when I look inside it does appear flush with the bore. I guess the tenon is just kinda long.t
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Author: sfalexi
Date: 2003-05-14 15:12
Ralph G wrote:
> Have you noticed you can't push it all the way into the barrel
> socket? Mine sticks out just a tad -- although when I look
> inside it does appear flush with the bore. I guess the tenon is
> just kinda long.t
>
lol. I thought I only had that problem! I had that problem with the Pomarico's I tried out, and I have that problem with my secondary mouthpiece, a selmer S1 crystal MP. Maybe it's something to do with that little metal ring they have at the end of the tenon. It doesn't affect the playability since it doesn't wobble at all and the cork provides a good seal. But I just thought my barrel was just different than anyone elses (being my instrument was made in 1970 it very well have could been different than newer instruments.)
Alexi
US Army Japan Band
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Author: Ralph G
Date: 2003-05-14 15:22
I've played my Pomarico on my R-13 Prestige, my Leblanc LL A clarinet, and my Signet 100, all with different barrels (including a new Click barrel I just got for my outdoor municipal band concerts this summer) and it sticks out on all of them. So nope, it's not just you or your barrel. But all my other 'pieces fit just fine..
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2003-05-15 13:57
I should be trying out one [or several] Pom Crystal Bb's on my CTs, considering my great satisfaction with 2 older "GG's", a 3 and a refaced [by D S] 1 for my Sel bass cl! Best I've found. Reading the descriptions, the Bb Diamond [3?] "sounds" the most like what I think I like!! While I seldom, dern it, get to play my Sel alto, I prob. should try one here also to see if I can approach Basset Horn tonalities!! Luck, trying them, Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: john gibson
Date: 2003-05-15 16:07
Don B...
I find the Pomarico Diamond Plus with the bright rather than mellow chamber to blow nice and easy with a great sound. The tip opening is 1.25mm.....facing I believe is 18mm. It is much better than my Selmer crystal #3. By the way I have a Pomarico ebony MPC as well....and it is also superb.
As for fitting all the way into the barrel. Never noticed, so if it does, it doesn't stick out very far....
John
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2003-05-15 17:36
TKS, John, will bear that in mind when I get around to ordering from one of our "discount houses", I need to check prices,availability and trial terms. In our "heartland" few music stores have much stock. I "talked-EM" with Riccardo on back, believe he referred me to the sellers. On my basses, I also notice a curving-gap on fit, dont see any problem as long as the tenon pretty much "bottoms-out" in the socket, may be able to check it , other than by measurement, via my Selmer tuning-neck-slide-joint! Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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