Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2020-11-20 00:45
Micke/Paul: I recently bought a Wurlitzer-branded mouthpiece for Oehler-system bass clarinet, was on the infamous auction site but probably came from Thomann. It is acrylic, not hard rubber, which makes me wonder if it is of Chinese manufacture?
The facing was awful, the mouthpiece was unplayable as received. I had to do extensive refacing and baffle work to get it where I wanted it. But as with several acrylic soprano clarinet mouthpieces I've refaced in the past, the end result sounded every bit as good as (indistinguishable from) hard rubber. I have no qualms about playing on acrylic. As for the feel in the mouth, I use mouthpiece patches on everything I play so can't tell the difference.
As for orange Oehler-system mouthpieces, my old F. Arthur Uebel Oehler-system bass (acquired years ago from our friend Ben H.) came to me with its original Uebel mouthpiece, made of the orange-ish hard rubber. It appears they often made mouthpieces back then/over there out of hard rubber mixed without carbon black, not sure why. Any chemists in the audience that can explain? The orange-ish material seems softer than the 'industry-standard' black material, making it more difficult to reface accurately and less resistant to scratches/dents.
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