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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2020-05-03 00:38
There is (was) this product that looked like a really thin piece of foil that you placed between the reed and the mouthpiece to enhance or prolong the performance of a reed......it had extensions that poked out into the first portion of the facing.
Anyway I don't even know how to search for it because it doesn't fall into a handy category.
Anybody know what this is (was), and where to get them (if still available)?
.............Paul Aviles
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2020-05-03 02:19
Well no, but this is intriguing.
The problem I am experiencing is with only a percentage of older Legere European cut reeds. The seem to develop just the slightest bend which seems to cause them to squeal. Not a squeak mind you but something way up (several more partials higher), akin to biting the reed with your teeth.
I believe the issue is with the first facing dimension closest to where reed and mouthpiece are firmly together.
The product I am looking for though is about the size of the entire stock and shoulder of the reed.
HOWEVER,
No harm in trying the Bravo product. THANKS!
................Paul Aviles
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Author: Robert N.
Date: 2020-05-03 03:16
I think I might know what you are referring to, but I could not find it either.
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2020-05-03 23:28
I received an email from a Boarder so I am not sure if I should attribute the source but the product was "Claripatch" and is no longer available. The product seem to have come and gone between 2004 and 2006. Would it have been better suited for today's synthetic reeds?
The world may never know.
................Paul Aviles
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Author: donald
Date: 2020-05-04 02:36
I'm sure there will be someone somewhere who has bought one then not used it more than once or twice. Put the word out on the Facebook ICA page and the other clarinet pages, you'll find a Claripatch I guarantee it!
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Author: Bob Bernardo
Date: 2020-05-04 04:05
Hi buddy. good post Paul.
Can you take a pic of this? I'm kind of a molder, able to make a lot of things out of RTV at an inexpensive price. Then if the product is good I can make molds costing a lot. I have a few 3 and 4 cavity molds running around $75,000. RTV molds only cost about $25 a jug. Plus whatever material is used for the product needed. This is an inexpensive way to find out if something works or it alterations to the mold or different materials are warranted.
Write offline to protect any ideas and inventions. I also check patents national and world first.
B
Designer of - Vintage 1940 Cicero Mouthpieces and the La Vecchia mouthpieces
Yamaha Artist 2015
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Author: donald
Date: 2020-05-04 05:00
Bob, he's talking about someone else's invention, made of very thin metal (so not suitable for a mold), that he DOESN'T have, so he can't exactly send you much info about it, can he?
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2020-05-04 06:10
I'm on a phone at the moment and can't get fancy with links.
It should come up with a simple Google search. The product is a set of plastic shims (actually only about 17mm short of the full length of the reed) covered with aluminum.
According to the product info you can take these 8 or so shims of different tolerances (based on what you want them to do) that can be used in more than six thousand different configurations. According to my friendly e-mail none of them worked so great (never really detailed how many configurations were tried).
...............Paul Aviles
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Author: Ed
Date: 2020-05-04 18:18
I recall seeing those advertised. If I understood it correctly, it seemed to be essentially changing the facing for different reeds.
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Author: duncsleigh
Date: 2020-05-05 01:39
It looks like it is available here:
http://www.intradamusic.com/en/shop/4-17-0-CLARIPATCH-PRO.html
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2020-05-05 04:49
Thanks for the heads-up. It appears they cannot ship to the States due to lack of reliable delivery flights at this time.
Must be new old stock. I kinda figured it would be a little pricey, roughly $110.00 US dollars.
...........Paul Aviles
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2020-05-08 07:41
I thought it might be interesting to pass on that I have tried the Bravo Reed "Reed Booster."
For my situation, the squealing Legere European Signature, they are a mixed bag that ultimately does not work.
To keep this short, to take advantage of any perturbation of the airflow to help my situation, I needed to bring the leading edge of the Booster (a small rubber button with a sticky surface...similar to what you'd use to silence doors of a kitchen cabinet) up within the working length of my facing or 13mm from the tip of the reed. This is further up the reed than any demonstrated image from Bravo Reed. Yes, that did suppress the squealing to a notable degree. However, at that height on the reed the mass of the Booster suppressed too much of the vibration characteristics of the reed making the sound too dull.
In my opinion (as a played with several different points along the reed all the way down to just where the button touches the bottom of the mouthpiece window) this product does not offer a realistic advantage.
Of course I use synthetic reeds not cane, and I did have a specific issue that this product was not designed to address.
..................Paul Aviles
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