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Author: stevesklar
Date: 2007-05-25 18:01
Vandoren also "mass" produced a few adjustable table mpcs - i've seen one on ebay last month ??
hey Alexi .. i have that mpc .... want more pics ?
It was a homemade solution by a client's brother of mine prob from the 1960s, as you can guess, to adjust the tip opening. Of course, it also brings up the table flatness, of concavity/convexity issues of it from the adjustments
you have to adjust the reed strength to the appropriate tip opening.
Steve
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2007-05-25 20:09
Alexi - Does it have a name [possibly inventor?] and, again possibly, a patent, copyable from USPTO. I may try a search, later, based on the descriptive words. Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: sfalexi
Date: 2007-05-26 05:13
Steve,
I got those pics off your website!!! I just found it very interesting and haven't seen anything like it posted on this board before so I figured I'd bring it up. Thought it might be an interesting talk of discussion. If there's anything that Don can find on the patent I'd be interested in looking at that.
Just found it to be an a very clever (even though I guess it didn't catch on) way to manipulate the tip opening of a mouthpiece.
US Army Japan Band
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2007-05-26 10:44
sfalexi wrote:
> Steve,
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> I got those pics off your website!!!
I didn't notice you had attached pictures to your post until now. PLEASE - if you want to reference something on the Web, just put links to it. That's the whole idea behind the Web.
Besides the fact that you had no permission to copy those pictures ...
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Author: sfalexi
Date: 2007-05-26 12:22
Whoops. Not intentional. Made the above links to the url's where the pictures were posted.
Alexi
US Army Japan Band
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2007-05-26 13:09
Hi Alexi - Yes, I found a ?few? [43] patents to look at by searching www. USPTO.gov. via clarinet AND mouthpiece AND adjustable. The newest [top of list] 7,220,903 has a "laundry list" of references cited, And a fine [but limited] discussion of the relation of many to this invention, so as to establish his patentability. To view the drawings of these patents [1976 and later], click on "Images", yes a pic is worth many words and their interpretation. Happy reading, I will also, Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: stevesklar
Date: 2007-05-26 15:44
Alexi et all,
I haven't actually treid playing that mpc .. might just give it a go. dId you notice on the last pic, there a nicely designed wedge that keeps the table "somewhat" inflexible to minimize concavity/convexity.
The person who "created" this was a Ted Koliba out of Hamtramck Michigan. He was a professional clarinet, sax, piano, violin player from the 20's thru maybe 70s. He passed away last year. He was a player not someone to make a patent.
FYI, his clarinet of choice was two Selmer partial articulated clarinets. I forget the models but one had the old Selmer emblem the other the new Selmer emblem - and they were both something like "L"s and several hundred #s apart. Alto sax he played a Balanced Action, tenor a tonally wonderful SBA. he played the same instruments his entire career that he originally bought. His brother played a Noblet 45.
I'm sure there's a Vandoren patent as I saw something similar on that strange auction site last month. i'm going to take a look at those patent pics when I get a chance .. all real interesting.
FYI - no prb with those pics posted - if i was really worried about that stuff I would put www.saxmaniax etc on each pic i put up
Cheers
Steve Sklar
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