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Author: Gregory Smith ★2017
Date: 2006-01-03 22:40
Scott asked:
"Greg Smith, where did you learn your mouthpiece skills in the beginning?"
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By observation: Elmer Aiello of the Woodwind Co. (then a part of the LeBlanc Co.), Everett Matson, and Rick Sayre.
By experience: Using the techniques observed by these three gentleman, I learned via trial and error what worked and what didn't when it came to adjusting or reworking my own existing, mostly playable mouthpieces. This was all, I thought at the time, in the service of my own playing.
Later on, when the drought on good blanks finally came to an end, I naturally transitioned from an original Kaspar or Chedeville into my own personal version of the Zinner blank. Only after considerable thought and experimentation did I decide to start making them for other clarinettists.
I had the basic carpentry and other related skills to begin with because both of my grandfathers were contractors and had incredibly well stocked buildings full of tools. I learned from them some fundamental skills about how to handle, use, and build/fashion tools.
That was at a very young, pre-teen age but as it turned out, it was very important that I was exposed to that kind of world at that early age. It's amazing how alot of what I learned then seemed to carry over into my work with mouthpieces and the making of my own mouthpiece tools. The experience that I gleaned from those early experiences also helped me in my understanding of the cause and effect of techniques applied by Aiello, Matson, and Sayre.
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