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Re: The balance of mouthpieces

Author: Brad Behn
Date: 2018-02-19 00:36

Hi Donald and Dan,

Yes I don't remember but thanks for the reference. Indeed baffle and facing irregularities can influence playing characteristics. Many older mouthpieces were significantly hand worked and unfortunately unskilled laborers worked them into very poor performers. Note Bonade mouthpieces for example. Very good blanks, yet they typically didn't play well at all. Their facings were crooked, their tables weren't true, and their window shapes was all over the place. Bonade's student's were required to play on them, but they typically only used the mouthpiece during lessons, or tried to use another in lesson (hopefully without Bonade's noticing). Eddie Daniels and Robert Marcellus both shared the same story with me.

But...

When properly refaced, a Bonade mouthpiece can be a very nice player. balancing their poorly rendered upper baffle irregularities, their tables and facings and a little TLC would alter these mouthpieces from something totally unacceptable to something artistic.

Brad Behn
http://www.clarinetmouthpiece.com

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