Author: seabreeze
Date: 2021-08-24 00:04
The Boosey & Hawkes 1010 model clarinet had a very wide bore with little or no taper from top to bottom. That popular top-of-the-line model required a specially bored and shaped mouthpiece to play in tune with good response. The typical French style Boehm mouthpiece (Vandoren, Kaspar, Hite, Selmer, etc) does not make a good match for the wide-bore, broad-sounding B&H clarinets. And, conversely, the mouthpieces designed for big bore B&H instruments generally give poor results on most Buffet, Selmer, and Yamaha clarinets. The Search feature of BBoard provides helpful discussion of this characteristic--look for posts on "Mouthpiece for Boosey and Hawkes 1010." Especially useful are postings from Cigleris, Clancy, Norman Smale, Donald, and Graham Elliot on this topic. Stores like Howarth in London are careful to note which used mouthpieces they have for sale are a match for the 1010 (and similar big bore models from Peter Eaton and L. Rossi).
Post Edited (2021-08-24 00:21)
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