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Re: Brad Behn vintage review

Author: Tom Puwalski
Date: 2010-03-13 23:57

All the reviews thus far have been from people who bought Brad's mouthpiece and love it. If you didn't love it you shouldn't have bought it. I had a few of the vintage rubber Behn mouthpieces sent to me on trial. It was impeccably finished, and really well executed, except for one facing aspect. The tip rail was way to thin for me. I spent the full time really trying to evaluate this mouthpiece, and I really wanted to work. I tried every thing I could do to make it work. Different reeds brands and strengths. The tip rail is too thin, I spent time recording different things on it and I can hear the tip width. Now I have to admit I have been playing a little wider than I had been playing over the years, but these were have the width of the Matson, Gennusa type mouthpieces that I learned on.

When I talked to Brad he mentioned that if I purchased one he would rework a tip rail for me, but at the price that the mouthpiece commands it either plays better or easier for me or I ain't buying it. I am not going to relearn my playing to make a piece of equipment work. Now I have one of my zinners that Brad refaced for me a few years back at one of the ICA fests and he did a beautiful job on it, but it didn't endow it with any mythical or magical properties, it just played well.

It never ceases to amaze me how much money and energy we collectively spend on the "non Moving" parts of the Clarinet Machine. I know I can walk into a Music and Arts and pick up a M15 or an M30, take it home and in 10 min find a reed that will work on it. Does it sound as good as my normal mouthpiece? I'm not sure, I've listened to recordings of myself and I have trouble hearing a noticeable difference. My normal mouthpiece a Zinner refaced by Bob Scott, is nothing "special" but than Iggie's ched wasn't all that special either. I recently picked up a Gennusa for Ben Redwine had him put on my modified m15 facing on it and it played really nice. It was a 442 version and for me it played perfectly in tune the 440 version for me, played flat in the throat tones, but than so do vandoren 440 versions.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, when I was a kid there was a sneaker: PF fliers that made the claim that you could "run faster and Jump higher" wearing these shoes. You can't buy game!

Tom Puwalski, former clarinet soloist and principal clarinetist with the U.S. Army Field Band, author of The Clarinetist's Guide to Klezmer, More Klezmer Gig tunes and coming soon Clarinet Basic Training.

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