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Re: Period Clarinets-a "standard" model?

Author: Dibbs
Date: 2014-07-23 19:02

ruben wrote:

> Dibbs,
> Thank you for your encouraging words, and you might be
> right; maybe they're not so bad after all. I am basing myself
> on what one person who actually plays period instruments told
> me, but that's just one person and I'm not sure how well he
> plays. We need to find an adequate mouthpiece. Would you, or
> anybody else, have any suggestions? If ever you're in this neck
> of the woods, do come and see us and judge for yourself. We
> have discontinued the production of period instruments, but
> could easily start again if we were at all successful.
>

My mouthpiece is from Daniel Bangham at Wood, Wind and Reed in Cambridge. He has had some injection moulded. I don't know whether he's selling them. He might need them all for his clarinet making courses. It seems to work well for me on my but not necessarily for another instrument. It doesn't take modern reeds. I have to start with a German cut reed and make it narrower with a plane. The mouthpiece actually works surprisingly well on a B&H 1010 if I wrap tape around the tenon. (I only tried that to find out how much of the sound was down to the mouthpiece and how much the instrument.)

Failing that, I know Ed Pillinger makes mouthpieces for Stephen Fox's early instruments.

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