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Author: John Peacock
Date: 2016-12-31 19:03
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I wanted to say sincere thanks to contributors here who introduced me to the wonders of Milliput epoxy putty. It turned out to be just what I needed to mend an 1830s-vintage wooden mouthpiece.
The attached pictures show the stages of the process: initial broken state with pins drilled in and superglued to support the new beak; then with the new beak formed by hand. Milliput is quite soft to start with, and especially if you wet the surface it's easy to smooth it with a small piece of wood into approximately the right shape. The colour match is pretty good. Then after a few hours it's rock solid and the lay can be formed by a few strokes on a sheet of sandpaper. Cut a reed to size, and it's done. To my delight, the thing plays not badly and I can get notes out of a clarinet that might have been silent for 150 years.
So I can end 2016 with a piece of good news - thanks to the BB.
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Author: MichaelW
Date: 2016-12-31 20:43
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Interesting piece. Made by Geo. Wood, still with the old features: long tenon, countersunk lay- the same as with the mouthpiece signed "J.Wood fecit" that came with my "Goulding & Co." C- clarinet of ca. 1810 vintage. J. Wood according to New Langwill Index was the father of the beforementioned and partner of Goulding.
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Author: Wes
Date: 2017-01-04 06:25
Good work on the beak of the mouthpiece. I would be tempted to make the tip and side rails much thinner, but then it would be different than it was originally made. I would also be tempted to polish and clean up the interior, but again that would change it from the original. I have an old mouthpiece on a Firth, Hall, and Pond clarinet from 1840 that I have refrained from modifying.
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