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Author: Brian
Date: 2001-09-22 23:39
Can anyone help me find info on what mouthpiece and reed combination Artie Shaw used???
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Author: John Gould
Date: 2001-09-23 00:45
This is just a shot in the dark, but maybe something in some back issues of Downbeat.
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Author: Peter
Date: 2001-09-23 01:50
There is an Artie Shaw link on the web, it is:
www.artieshaw.com
Maybe something there like an e-mail link or telephone number you can call for someone who acts as historian.
If you find out, I too would be curious to know myself.
If you
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Author: William
Date: 2001-09-23 06:50
I read somewhere that Artie Shaw would walk into a music store, buy the first mouthpiece that he saw and then work on the facing with sandpaper until it played the way he wanted it to.
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Author: Anji
Date: 2001-09-23 13:11
I second William's note.
I heard that Artie had a patch of cement on his back porch that was his whetstone.
Then again, I dinna have a Ph.D. in Arshawsky studies.
anji
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2001-09-23 13:46
Back in these "dark ages", I recall that the major US mouthpiece makers were Woodwind and O'Brien and prob. most of the US clarinet makers included them as such or with their names "stapled-on". The US makers in this "depression" era [some 10 years] included Conn, Buescher, Bettoney, Pruefer, Penzel-Mueller, White [King line], Pedler, Linton and others I cant recall now. This of course was the time when "French was Best".. Am interested in findings. Don
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Author: Jeff
Date: 2001-09-23 20:02
I read somewhere that Artie Shaw played on a Selmer S facing mouthpiece.
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2001-09-24 15:29
You likely are correct, Jeff. In my post above, I meant "stencilled-on", not stapled!. I read over [rapidly] Conrad Josias [josassoc@ix.netcom.com] VERY interesting ICA Journal article but found no mention of clarinet, mp or reeds. Perhaps C J or MS Berman could supply some details. I believe I heard the A S big band in Flint Mich. in 1939-40's, but my memory isnt responding with that detail. My GUESSWORK is that he played a 30's Selmer-Paris [as most "biggies" did then, possibly a very special GM Bundy which was becomming accepted!] and a wide-tip, long lay Selmer mp with a quite hard reed, Vandoren , probably [Vibrators were popular then] to produce his great command of the altissimo. As is evident, I also am very interested. If you have the ICA, look carefully at the pics, his embouchure and playing positions are a bit different!!! Don
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