Author: Wes
Date: 2016-09-05 05:33
It surely must be the late Bob Mario who played flute, clarinet and piccolo in the Disney studios in the 1950s. He played on a lot of cartoon features which had hard woodwind parts. Mario lived in an apartment in Hollywood in the 1950s where I visited him and he worked on a mouthpiece I had, filing out some material in the bore under the table, making it brighter.
Later, he moved to the Burbank area, I recall, as I visited him there also. He had a lot of mouthpiece customers and kept a file of measurements of the mouthpieces he worked on. He was also a serious repair person of flutes, clarinets, and saxophones. One of his tricks was to put a piece of kitchen sink sponge in the low Eb or C hole on saxes for tuning purposes. After many years of playing, teaching, and repairing, he was moved to a retirement home where he passed on.
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