Author: RKing
Date: 2021-10-02 19:56
Those Rico Metalite mouthpieces were designed by Arnold Brilhart, the same guy who produced the white plastic Brilhart Tonalin saxophone mouthpieces that we all loved back in the 60s and 70s rock bands. I still have a few of those rattling around in my storage box.
The Metalites are hard to find, but you can find lots of the plastic Graphtonite mouthpieces around. They were copies of the Metalites and were made in the early 2000s, IIRC. I'm not sure that a "serious" clarinetist would use one, but they were great for high school and marching bands. I still have one of my high school Selmer "Goldentone" mouthpieces in a box somewhere, too. <LOL>
Unfortunately, I still have not been able to make the Plasticover reeds work very well for me. For some reason, they tend to dry out on me like regular cane reeds. But I am now solid with my Fibracell reeds and bounce them between my B45 and B45 Lyre mouthpieces with no problems. Now I just have to learn how long one of them will last. If I can do that, I'll probably just "Declare Victory" and stop experimenting until my saliva glands start working again.. if ever.
And the CSVR is starting to feel very good, too. Gotta love that Yamaha QC!
Ron
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