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Author: Meri
Date: 2000-12-14 23:21
(This is somewhat related to the above post)
I would like to convince the school music teacher that her clarinet and saxophone players use better equipment for their mouthpieces and reeds.
The kids are playing Rico Royal Mouthpieces and Rico Orange-Box 2 1/2's.
I'm getting to the point where I'd like to demonstrate how bad such mouthpieces and reeds are, by actually playing a mouthpiece I know is bad (I have one in my drawer in my desk) with one of those reeds, in contrast to my Fobes Debut and either a good cane or Legere reed.
Any other ideas, besides selling the reeds and mouthpieces directly to the kids?
Meri
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Author: Amanda Rose
Date: 2000-12-15 00:23
How about a fund raiser? Kids are expensive and parents might warm up to the idea of a fund raiser so each kid could make some money to put toward a good Vandoren mp or something. That might help a lot. With reeds, if you order enough boxes from a catalog or whatever you can get a big enough discount to disregard shipping. The school could do that and then sell the reeds to the kids (or even parents could form some sort of "reed account")
Amanda Rose
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Author: Willie
Date: 2000-12-15 03:44
I cleaned and sterilized my daughters polycrystal, fitted it with a new VD and let one of my students try it in front of her parents. Not only did she start playing better but sounded much better imediately. Her parents are now looking into a new one for X-mas.
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Author: Bob Curtis
Date: 2000-12-15 20:53
Meri -
When I was teaching in public school in Texas we (the local band directors) got with the local music dealers and requested that each new clarinet (and several other instruments) they sold come with our choice of mouthpiece. They were willing to cooperate and it worked wonders. The price for the instrument included the cost of the mouthpiece and all was well. We felt that this was the easiest way to deal with this problem. Our major problem then changed to when a parent got a second hand instrument. We requested that the parents have band directors inspect all of these for approval before they purchased them. When the instrument required a different mouthpiece we pointed this out to the parents and the reasons for the change. Most parents accepted this and made the switch. This generally worked very well. Maybe this idea will help you. It did us.
Bob Curtis
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