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Re: mouthpiece dilemma

Author: sfalexi
Date: 2004-06-15 21:26

You can use wax dental floss inbetween the cork and the socket. That's plenty cheap enough and should work fine (make sure it's wax).

Also keep in mind that if you DO recork it for the yamaha, and it's too tight on the other clarinet, you can just have the cork shaved down a bit. (Recorking should not cost much AT ALL. I believe I had mine recorked at a local music shop for a few bucks. VERY easy to do and VERY cheap.)

Anothing thing people do is boil water, and put a butter knife in there to heat up. Then gently wipe the cork with the butter knife. The heat will make the cork expand and the little water on the knife will keep a little moisture in there. There are various ways of heating the cork (down to just a good 'ol lighter) but this one was filed away in my brain as it seemed to be one of the simplest/safest.

I would NOT pick options C or D above. There WILL be a simple way to get that mouthpiece on there without spending too much (or, if you can expand the cork, nothing at all!)

Alexi

Retired, playing more sax than clarinet, but still playing clarinet and still loving it!

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