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Re: Kasper mouthpieces

Author: Bob Bernardo
Date: 2016-04-27 04:36

Wow, thanks folks so much for taking the time to write. This information is very valuable.

I did send out an email to our friend Greg Smith. He may call me. Sometimes he calls rather than sending emails. I also got some wonderful information from Fred Ormand and Ramon Wodkowski. Both also helped me out greatly. I hadn't heard from Ramon before, so that was a really wonderful surprise. I look forward to future conversations with him. A great guy for sure to take the time to write and offer me so much info.

So from what I've found so far is the Kaspers would modify the baffles and adjust the facing. The rest of the mouthpieces weren't touched. I know from measuring the Ann Arbor Kasper's that the baffles can be very different. I have 2 Ann Arbors
and the baffles are totally different, both tend to be bright sounding, so the information about dark sounding mouthpieces makes total sense.

Also being friend with Mitchell Lurie for 20 years or so, making his reeds, the Lurie mouthpiece baffles were deeper. He used Pomirico mouthpieces. Don't think I spelled that right.

Folks, keep posting! Many thanks!

Bob

Designer of - Vintage 1940 Cicero Mouthpieces and the La Vecchia mouthpieces

Yamaha Artist 2015

Post Edited (2016-04-27 04:46)

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