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Author: Jack Kissinger
Date: 2014-05-18 09:45
Pete Fountain played (maybe still plays) Leblanc clarinets. Leblanc actually had a Pete Fountain model in its product line. He also played (maybe still plays) a glass mouthpiece so the markings on the mouthpiece in your pictures make sense.
Best regards,
jnk
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Author: josepclarinet
Date: 2014-05-18 10:26
Thank You very much!! Searching more I find that you two are right, its a Pete Fountain Leblanc- Something that I see is that this mouthpiece is considered a Jazz Mouthpiece...but well I play Classic and Jazz too but I always try to have a big round focused and dark sound, never like Jazz kind of color...insted when I play klezmer or Jazz maybe I play a little brigther..but I dont like to bright alot...is just a little color..but with this mothpiece it sound to me even more dark and kind of "classical" sound than my B45...I'm playing now Spohr 1 concerto and with this mouthpiece is realy easy and well sounding reach the realy high C required in this piece with a beautiful realy dark sound..that makes me thing about when people says "Jazz Mouthpiece".
Thank You very much all!!!!
And what did you guys think about this "Jazz clarinet mouthpiece" that it sounds like "Classical clarinet mouthpiece"?
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Author: Tony F
Date: 2014-05-18 10:51
The best mouthpiece I ever had was a glass Leblanc. Long gone now, dropped it.
Tony F.
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Author: josepclarinet
Date: 2014-05-18 23:37
I realy like crystal mouthpieces and specially this one!
One realy interesting fact that I see with Crystal Mouthpieces is that actually I see a realy important fact about the material that the mouthpiece is made of...
My teachers play in a Vandoren A3 crystal mouthpiece since like 20 years ago, they buy them when they were in Moscow studiying...and I remember that they always told me that when you play with crystal the sound really changes and they told me this "When yoy play with crystal it gets more warm than the regular Ebonite mouthpieces, and when you warm up you can notice that the mouthpiece is more warm than the regular Ebonite so is more easy to get this beautiful sound and will last longer to get cold...the problem is that the crystal takes longer to warm up but it last longer to get cold"
So actually it exist a scientific fact about the differences between Ebonite and Crystal.
That is the opinion of my teachers and they realy have alot of experience.
Post Edited (2014-05-19 03:29)
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Author: TAS
Date: 2014-05-20 07:16
Pete Fountain.
I always enjoyed his southern charm.....
I used to have a LeBlanc LL7 back in the day when I did lots of jazz clubs and studio work. It may have been the only clarinet around with a 90 proof bore....
The R13 Buffet bought in 1963 and still used playing by me in symphonic and chamber work was reserved for such.
The LL7 had a great jazz feel to it.
TAS
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