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Re: Weinberg mouthpieces

Author: Caroline Smale
Date: 2017-02-25 00:04

In fact by French standards the 926 is a big bore clarinet at 15.05 mm (The 1010 is even larger at 15.25 mm).
Whilst many people do find the 926 works OK with a standard mouthpiece ideally the bore of the mouthpiece should be specific to the 926.
I don't have the exact measurements to hand but the following is the gist.

The taper on the 926 m/p is much less steep than standard French m/ps
about half way between French taper and the 1010 m/p parallel bore.
This results in a larger volume of bore and so the 926 m/p is about 2 mm shorter than a French one.

I actually play my 926 with a Vandoren Crystal A1 M/P but it turns out that my A1 mouthpiece has bore dimensions and length almost identical to the 926 one.

Ed Pillinger makes 926 specific bore mouthpieces and some repairers have the reamer needed to convert a French bore m/p to 926.

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