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Author: Hiroshi
Date: 1999-10-04 02:15
A Japanese mouthpiece manufacturer is going to sell a ceramic mouthpiece at the end of this month! (The blank will be manufacatured by a ceramic manufacturer,who is making bath-tub or other things ... and he will finish it.)
Have someone heard of or used clarinet mouthpiece made of other peculiar materials other than hard rubber, plastic or natural materials like grenadilla,or rosewood?
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Author: Barry
Date: 1999-10-04 12:46
In many ways wouldn't you expect a polycrystalline ceramic mouthpiece to be similar to a crystal (i.e. high density glass) mouthpiece? Both will be "stiff" materials relative to hard rubber, plastic, and wood. The ceramic will resonate similarly to crystal if the ceramic is substantially non-porous (fine china dinnerware rings much the way crystal glassware does). The feel of the ceramic mouthpiece in ones mouth will probably not be as smooth as crystal, hard rubber, or plastic unless the ceramic were glazed (given a glassy overcoat) externally.
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 1999-10-04 14:54
EGBDF - every good book does fine in discussing mp's and their materials. My favorites are Brymer and Gibson, but all MUST talk about them! To add to materials, I have seen mp's of ivory, a natural plastic?? Don
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Author: Joanne
Date: 1999-10-04 15:32
I have seen an antique boxwood clarinet on ebay (1850s?) with a pewter mp! If I'm not mistaken (Don?), lead is a component of pewter - probably not a good thing to put in your mouth every day!
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 1999-10-04 16:26
Yes, lead isn't good, even for olders like me. A while back we did discuss the lead content of fine crystal glass, which is prob used for mp's, like Waterford etc, because of high clarity and transparency [showy!], to no conclusion I believe. I and others seem to believe the lead is more-tightly bound [in glass, certainly than pewter] so that little or no extraction by the slightly basic saliva will take place. Have never heard of problems! A good chomical question!! Don
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