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Re: crystal mouthpieces

Author: Bob Bernardo
Date: 2019-07-27 20:07

Sunny,

"Hi Bob, If the table needs to be completely flat, does that mean that if we just lay it flat on a completely flat bit of really fine sandpaper (maybe on glass) and sand it down gently, then that would help?

Thanks!

Sunny"

Well no. sorry to say. It's pretty complicated. The question you've ask is very good. The tooling needed which I use was either made by me at CalTech or designed by me such as the squares and the diamond wheels. Even the marble table must be perfectly flat, to the point that no dust is on it and has to be cleaned. Then and only then can I make a table flat. It's this painstaking effort sometimes to the point of spending 2 to 4 hours on a glass mouthpiece.

But once it's done then the rail facing part is easy and I use 16 points of reference to 18. As stated above a lot of crystal mouthpieces can be stuffy. Yet when you take the time to put on a good facing, then adjust a reed properly the setup almost magical.

However, there is no reason why a great rubber mouthpiece can't do this as well. In fact, modern crystal mouthpieces usually have small bores. This I do not like. With rubber mouthpieces I can ream them out to precise accurate bore specifications; such as what the old Chedecille and Kaspar bores were. Glass sadly will crack and bust into pieces.

This smaller bored mouthpieces effects several notes on the clarinets similar to the Rico mouthpieces and none of the 12's are in tune on any instruments.

It amusing me me and actually shocks me when players can't hear when their horns are out of tune and also don't spend $20 for a tuner before texting out mouthpieces! Yes I know people will tell me the mouthpieces they have play in tune. No they don't if you are using Rico and Vandoren M series mouthpieces. Dump them and you will be better players!

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

Yamaha Artist 2015

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