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Re: Vintage, or Vintage Clone?

Author: Llewsrac
Date: 2006-01-01 22:45

I began playing a Kaspar Chicago 14 Clarinet mouthpiece 44 years ago. I have played many, many different Kaspars in those 44 years. I have also played just about the same number of every major or minor brand mouthpieces produced over the last century. Many of these mouthpieces in their original facings, others refaced by top people, sometimes improving upon, sometimes not improving upon the original makers art. In all cases I return to try and match the sound I hear in my ear of a mature clarinet sound. This highly sought after sound is the result of listening to over 106 years of recordings (poor recording qualities by todays standards, but even through the hiss and crackles a core tone can still be heard) and for me, I come closest to reproducing that sound on Vintage original, or vintage refaced Frank Kaspar or Frank L. Kaspar mouthpieces.
The science behind the original Kaspars, Henri Chedeville's is well worth knowing and understanding, but the science does not necessarly make the same mature sound for all Clarinettest. Kaspar mouthpieces work the best, so far for me to produce a mature sound that I am proud to offer up to the publics ear. If I could produce that quality of sound on a plastic Vito and a plastic stock mouthpiece I would, but I can not. The quality of the tone produced is always most important and the equipment used to produce that tone quality is always second in importance. That makes a vast amount of tonal concepts and a vast amount of equipment to produce your sound concept. And if that sound is good people will want to hear you, if not good, no one will be beating down your door to hear you play, thus it is time to start listening to different and better produced tonal concepts and discover the equipment and the Artistic Craftsman, vintage of modern that will work for you and the sound you wish to fill our ears with.

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