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Re: The clarinet catch can?

Author: SecondTry
Date: 2022-08-15 18:02

Thanks for sharing this Dan.

I had seen the design you speak of before, but its novelty in appearance, let alone its purpose for being simply didn't register much at the time I first saw it.

I wonder/suspect that Mr. Behn's Epic mouthpiece has 3 indentations in the mouthpiece tenon to accommodate the rings/prevent them from slipping up or down the tenon.

This design has me thinking. Just yesterday I recorked a mouthpiece for a student. I wonder if I took out my box of rubber "O" rings if I could find the right size ones to encompass the entire indented width where the cork goes on my Vandoren mouthpiece.

Not that recorking a mouthpiece is hard; it's IMHO trivial. But I'd think this rubber ring placement even easier and perhaps one where such energy transfer is superior.

Context: my inclination is that this energy transfer is more marketing than substance and best left to purists or the highest end players seeking even miniscule marginal improvements. Its the ease of permanently replacing the cork, no less "at the gig where I don't carry contact cement" with rubber rings, that has me intrigued over use of emergency teflon tape.

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