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Author: GBK
Date: 2011-01-27 19:26
A student asked me if such an item exists, or are we looking at the next million dollar idea? Or perhaps not.
I believe there is such a mouthpiece for bassoon, although I've never seen one first hand.
Links anyone?
...GBK
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Author: sbrodt54
Date: 2011-01-27 19:30
Years ago (way back in the dark ages around 1964) my father showed me a single reed mouthpiece for the oboe. It looked like a tiny, metal clarinet mouthpiece with a tube attached to insert into the oboe. I don't think it's around anymore, if I can find it I'll post a picture.
I have never seen anything like that since.
Scott Brodt
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Author: concertmaster3
Date: 2011-01-27 19:35
My teacher showed me one during undergrad sometime. It sounded horrid lol. I heard of a few of these around still though.
Ron Ford
Woodwind Specialist
Performer/Teacher/Arranger
http://www.RonFordMusic.com
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Author: William
Date: 2011-01-27 19:51
I've got an old single reed oboe mouthpiece and I believe it is a Chedeville. I also have a similar one for the bassoon.......don't play either, however. Both are just residing in my left-overs drawer.
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Author: kimber
Date: 2011-01-27 19:57
I have one. I'm an oboe player first, always had the thing and it sounded pretty awful. But - I have become a clarinet newbie and I will have to get it out and try it now that I have a sense of 'proper' clarinet embouchure. Of course the reed is 20+ years old and maybe I'll have to try my hand at cutting down a reed for it. If I remember, it is about the diameter of my first finger (and I have girl hands.)
If I can figure out how to post a picture here...I'll be happy to take a pic or two for the curious.
Post Edited (2011-01-27 19:58)
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Author: ohsuzan
Date: 2011-01-27 20:28
Yes, I have seen several of these over the years you-know-where. I can't think they would be much good for anything except curiosity, or the really desperate doubler. Even a bad oboe embouchure would be better.
Susan
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2011-01-27 20:43
The embouchure for these oboe mouthpieces is nothing like that of an oboe, clarinet or soprano sax embouchure - it's a very unique and difficult embouchure to do any justice and one destined to wreck any embouchure you already have for the others.
But worth a try if you like experimenting with strange set-ups.
Still sounds like an oboe but with a thicker, rounder tone.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2011-01-27 21:21
Let's not forget it was just such an unnatural pairing that gave us ........... the saxophone.
We CANNOT let history repeat itself !!!!!
...................Paul Aviles
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Author: Jack Kissinger
Date: 2011-01-27 22:22
I think those were designed to play either with an Eb clarinet reed or possibly an Ab reed.
Best regards,
jnk
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Author: justme
Date: 2011-01-28 00:48
Here's the Bassoon Mouthpiece I think that you were referring to:
http://www.runyonproducts.com/bassoon.html
Just Me
"A critic is like a eunuch: he knows exactly how it ought to be done."
CLARINET, n.
An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. There are two instruments that are worse than a clarinet -- two clarinets
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Author: GLHopkins
Date: 2011-01-28 03:37
I have both the Chedville oboe and bassoon mouthpieces. The reeds are smaller than Ab clarinet and Eb clarinet.
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Author: skygardener
Date: 2011-01-28 11:00
Paul,
Speaking from the opinion of someone that has played saxophones with matching mouthpieces made by the Sax firm, I can tell you that the saxophone of today is very different today than its intention.
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