Author: graham
Date: 2023-07-11 22:56
I have two mouthpieces for my 1970s Uebel e flat. One is a Buffet, the exit bore of which seems to have been lined at some point. The other is a Selmer, the exit bore of which is noticeably wider than the Buffet.
The Buffet tunes considerably better than the Selmer. The Selmer is flat in parts of the throat register, particularly where the side keys are involved, and very sharp at the top of the clarinet register (basically B and C). Unfortunately, the Selmer sounds much better than the Buffet.
I tried narrowing the Selmer’s bore with paper as an experiment, and everything went flat, so the narrower Buffet bore may not be the point.
Pillinger sells two different kinds of e flat mouthpiece to cater for the tendency of some old instruments to display these issues. The narrower bore suits the old instruments.
Anyway; if anyone has other ideas about this, I would be interested to see them.
graham
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