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Re: J&D Hite D mouthpiece

Author: Bob Bernardo
Date: 2019-08-17 09:49

Hi Jen, I'm OK with pro's using plastic reeds as well! I just can't use them as a double lip player. Maybe if I didn't play for so many hours they would work well.

I think some of the pro's that use them include Ricardo with the Philadelphia Orch. David Shifrin at Yale and several others. Another friend who is very talented but unknown is Joe Bonfiglio. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8zFW4t6GRQ
Went to Peabody with me and then to Juillard with Drucker. He could have sat in pretty much any orchestra, but chose to teach, which is surely fine with me. He does a lot of quintet type of work.

As for David Hite, he's a very nice man. I'm not sure if he is still alive. I last talked to him about 15 years ago, sadly to say. He treated me with much kindness as he did with all of his clients and friends.

Another very kind man just like David Hite is Tom Ridenour who also makes very nice mouthpieces as well as very good clarinets.

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

Yamaha Artist 2015

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