Author: hartt
Date: 2005-12-21 05:30
Brenda, you're asking me to remember/recall back 40 yrs. I have difficulty remembering what I bought at the food store this morning.
I was using the stock buffet C mp. In '64, the summer before my sr yr in HS, I attended a summer workshop at Ithaca college. The instructor was Charlie Bay. My then teacher, Russianoff, said 'talk to him about a mp'
During that workshop, Charlie made me a mp from an original rod rubber chedville blank that he had.
We sat for hrs; I tooted, he whittled, I tooted, he whittled some more.
When done, he hand engrraved the mp with his name, Ithaca college, Ithace, NY and the tip opening and actual length of the facing.
I used that mp throughout Hartt. While at Hartt, my then teacher, Opperman, made me a mp. I guess (don't recall) it was ok but it went the way of your Kaspar but without the bubblewrap.
I had stopped playing for 25 or so yrs and when I began again, I had some difficulty playing the old Bay mp so I gave it away to a then friend. I guess she still has it. (I hope / wonder if she knows what she really has).
I went back to the old original Buffet C and liked it. I've tried commercial mps, Smiths, a Hite (which i should have kept) and newer Bay's (1970 vintage) but didn't care for it.
For a few yrs now, I'm using a Fobes SanFran which Clark made for me and immensely like the sound, focus, ease of articulation and control.
He also made one for one of my eefer's, and alto and tenor sax. Sopsax, I use a stock Yamaha 4c; I like the sound with the plastic rather than the rubber.
so much for memory lane
dennis
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