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Re: Jazz Clarinet Mouthpieces

Author: seabreeze
Date: 2019-12-24 07:14

I grew up in New Orleans during the 1950s and liked the New Orleans Jazz clarinet Harold Cooper was playing then and into the 60s. (He's on recordings by the Dukes of Dixieland and Al Hirt). I did have several conversations with him and discovered that he used a Selmer E mouthpiece--one with the facing marked inside of an oval--so an "oval E Selmer." Other players liked Selmer HS** in both rubber and crystal. The O'Brien crystal mouthpieces were very popular too. All the jazz players of that generation seemed to be playing on Boehm clarinets (usually Selmer or Penzel Mueller). I heard many of the older generation players (including Louis Cottrell and Harry Shields, a relative of Larry Shields) on Albert system but didn't pay much attention to the equipment they were using. I do recall that if you wanted an Albert clarinet you could always get one from Ray Burke who used to have a little stall back of the St. Louis Cathedral on weekends loaded with old clarinets. Most were Selmer or Buffet with the wraparound register key at the top, and I recall seeing mostly wooden mouthpieces on them. He tried to sell me an Albert many times, but I couldn't stretch my right hand fingers wide enough to feel comfortable on an Albert and I was really listening to Buddy DeFranco then and starting to listen to classical players (on recordings) like Louis Cahuzac and Leopold Wlach so that seemed very old fashioned to me (though now I would pay attention, since I've learned to listen to and appreciate more styles of playing).

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