Author: JMcAulay
Date: 2002-02-21 15:19
Dave the Grinch wrote, in part:
"When I was growing up (purportedly) here on the Right Coast, Brilhart mouthpieces were
considered student or marching mouthpieces ---- serious players didn't use them."
David, not knowing the time frame of which you write, your comment doesn't ring my bells. Surely you don't think Artie Shaw and Charlie Parker were not serious players. Or were they just not around when you were growing up? Or maybe they were students then? Or were they marching?
When I was growing up, the "official" student mouthpiece was the one that came with the instrument. That, of course, was in olden days. It was only the *very serious* students who coughed up enough money to buy an "extra" mouthpiece.
Frankly, I do not know from direct experience if Brilhart mouthpieces were worth a hoot: I have never played one. However, Brilhart reeds were quite okay -- but I rarely bought them, because they used to cost me more than Vandorens.
I'm not sure why I have a personal fascination with Arnold Brilhart. Perhaps it's the thought that he was once an excellent performing musician who became a manufacturer, pretty much bailing out of his playing career. And I'm a person who was once a performing musician (although hardly excellent) who left that to become several other things, none of which had very much to do with music at all. So maybe my interest in Arnold is because he so completely turned his work-life around a few times, evidently with some success.
Regards,
John
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