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Re: Mouthpiece for Boosey & Hawkes Bb Bass Clarinet

Author: Caroline Smale
Date: 2012-01-18 23:26

Have just been taking a closer look at the photos posted and it looks as though there are no discernable differences in outline between your ebonite bass (c 1955/56) and my wood model from 1976.
Since B&H made relatively few changes to their soprano Imperials in this period it is even more unlikely they would have made many to the essentially hand made basses.

I also note that there doesn't seem to be any lyre holder box in the photos (mine has none fitted either but can't imagine anyone wanting to march with a lowC bass!!)

Have you checked the receiver diameter at several different angles to ensure that it is not sqashed slightly oval?

I think your best bet would be now to modify the tenon of an acceptable mouthpiece, looks like you probably only need to reduce radius by about 0.25mm.

By the way I'm pretty sure B&H never went "metric" in any real sense. So any measurements I gave are purely direct measurements from my instrument but done with metric guages.

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