 Keepers
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Author: William
Date: 2006-01-03 17:08
My favorite mouthiece is the one that I have played for most of my "career"--or like D Bonade has suggested, the one that I "went home and learned how to play". It happens to be a vintage Chicago Kaspar #14, and the only other mpc that came close was a Charlie Bay (Ithica, 1970) copy of it. The Greg Smith zinner clones--Ched & Kaspar--probably could have become "the ones" if I had played them from the beggining as they are great products. But, yhou just have to spend the time to learn how to play them and feel comfortable. Vintage or clone--doesn't make any difference. You dance best with the gal you know and like the best. Newer versions might be more "attractive"..........well, you know the rest.
Brenda wrote, "Also, the Cicero 11 had that funny vintage smell..."
That reminded me............... some years ago, when I was still searching for that perfect sax sound, a friend of mine lent me his favorite metal alto sax mouthpiece to try for a few days. When I returned it, he accussed me of not returning the same mouthpiece claiming "it didn't play the same". Actually, what I did was carefully wash the mpc before trying it, and--inadvertantly--cleaned all of the gunk from the chamber which had apparently accululated from many years of use. It came out looking pretty nice all cleaned up, but he still says that "it never played the same as it used to". (And, Brenda, it lost that "vintage" smell as well)
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2006-01-02 18:51 |
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2006-01-02 23:57 |
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2006-01-03 14:20 |
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2006-01-03 14:45 |
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Re: Vintage, or Vintage Clone? new |
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William |
2006-01-03 17:08 |
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Gregory Smith |
2006-01-03 17:49 |
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2006-01-03 18:31 |
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2006-01-03 22:40 |
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2006-01-03 22:47 |
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