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Re: tight mouthpiece fit in an early clarinet

Author: John Peacock
Date: 2018-06-13 01:18

I don't think this is a C clarinet issue: even just for Bb clarinets, mouthpieces have got bigger over the years in some cases. I have a 1923 Boosey, where the mouthpiece tenon diameter is 20.95 mm. I have an identical instrument made in 1930, and the mouthpiece tenon there is 21.15 mm. Modern tenon diameters seem to be between 22.15 and 22.3. But Buffet seem to have used about that size even back in the 20s/30s, and so did Boosey & Hawkes in the late 1930s. So it looks like each manufacturer used to have their own tenon dimensions, but gradually things standardised.

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