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Re: Saving DEAD sounds of Zinner's

Author: Bob Bernardo
Date: 2018-02-26 23:10

Burt, I'm not sure what you mean. But too wide rails produce dark and stuffy sounds. Thinner rails, if everything is set correctly, such as the distance between the left and right windows brings freedom to the vibrations of the sides of the reeds, plas the mouthpiece actually vibrates too. At the same time if these rails are too thin the mouthpiece can be too bright sounding. So there is that happy medium and I think the Yamaha Custom mouthpiece is close to what we want, but the problem with the Yamaha is the tip openings are 1.23, just sadly insane. If Yamaha made a tip opening of 1.07 or so they would sell like hotcakes. I tried to talk with them, but they look at me a dumb As* American. Too bad. They wouldn't give me any names, nothing, no information. Hung up on me.

I really wish companies would start to pay attention to what the musicians want. Such as Vandoren making these crappy mouthpieces that tune to 440. I thought Bernardo Vandoren was smarter than this. Guess not. Buffet changing the bores of the R13's to match the Selmer 10G and only tune to 440. None of us wanted this, not a single person. But for some reason these companies are shoving these down our throats. Yamaha giving us mouthpieces with alto sax tip openings. What's wrong with these people and these companies? The answer is to charge double and triple and come out with a Tosca that isn't very good, well not as good as the 1960's R13's.

So go online and look at the Yamaha Custom mouthpieces, ebay, and check out the rails. This is what you want.

When you buy a Buffet clarinet the mouthpiece is thrown out. These rails are paper thin. They aren't even good enough for a student.

Long story short I have a cure for the Zinner's. People can try to save their dead Zinner's or spend $1000's and buy another horrible mouthpiece. Right now there isn't anything out there. Maybe mine, but I'm not trying to sell mine but save the Zinner's. I'm trying to save your Zinner mouthpieces again for pennies.

Just follow my directions and you will have a great mouthpiece. If you want to argue with me don't do it and play on these dead mouthpieces. If you want that ping and that ring go for it. If you don't do it it's just a dead very expensive mouthpiece that sounds beautiful up close but around 20 feet from where you are playing it won't have that beautiful sound you hear up close.

Cheers!

Designer of - Vintage 1940 Cicero Mouthpieces and the La Vecchia mouthpieces

Yamaha Artist 2015

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