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Author: PopeS25
Date: 2008-07-20 22:00
Okay, I've been playing clarinet for a lowly year and a half by now, so I still don't know a lot about the instrument. Recently my mouthpiece broke the the point of no repair so I went off and bought a Van Doren B45 mouthpiece for my Selmer CL601 Aristocrat. The trouble is, it's too large to fit onto my current barrel without using more force than normal. The new ligature I bought barely fits around the thing either. Is there something wrong here? Maybe there's just a sizing or something I did not pay attention to.
I'm never indecisive! I think.
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Author: PopeS25
Date: 2008-07-20 22:15
It's not just the cork. The plastic itself is almost too large. Just barely fits in if I try hard enough. The cork doesn't fit at all. Grease isn't helping much.
I'm never indecisive! I think.
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2008-07-20 22:57
If you can return the B45, a number of us would say "do it", its not a favorite mp, even among the better V D's. Read our posts on mp selection, the good "student" mps are frequently recommended by our teachers. I'd suggest, on further mp shopping, you take your barrel, so as to try the tenon-socket fitting before you buy. Much luck, Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: cigleris
Date: 2008-07-20 23:10
Just get a tech to trim a bit off the tenon. I had the same problem a few years back.
Peter Cigleris
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