Absolutely right - if you try too hard to make your "ugly lover" better... You'll likely end up with "no lover" at all. :) Sincerely, Karsten J. Chikuri _____ ...
Uneven side rail thickness is not a big deal in any case: it may even be part of the characteristic sound of the mpc. The real important consideration is the...
I have just received an Amati 6 mouthpiece with my new C Clarinet. I have shared on this list that I use the Pyne "S" series for my Bb Clarinet and the 5RV...
Hi, at alls! Sorry, i d'nt speak english language, only good spanish. here adjunt a picture a mouthpiece curved lateral graphic view error. I scanned a plastic...
I'm not sure that I understand your question. Many of us here take measurements of the facing curve using a graduated glass gage with feeler gages. There are...
HELLO KEITH, ohhh Thank you for your response. Yes! you understood me; but too that i would like tell you than my search is oriented on scanner work of that...
I have my C Clarinet now and it came with an Amati 6 mouthpiece. I'm going to keep my mouthpiece but I put my Pyne S series mouthpiece on it because I can get...
FWIW, none of the Amati mouhtpieces I've tried were good (for soprano and bass clarinets, alto and tenor sax). I'd even say they were pretty awful! Â ... ...
I reasently got a questione from a sax player, playing in a militery band. Some of the sax players felt that when they were playing and marching in the heat on...
... militery ... were ... professionel ... just ... experinced ... When I was young, I've played for several years alto saxophone in a marching band often in...
Helge, When the saxophone is played with the hot sun beating down on the mouthpiece, very strange things do happen to the response of the instrument, but in my...
Hi, I wonder if heating up a rubber mouthpiece affects how the air "bounces off the sides, or perhaps a tight ligature can temporarily distort a rubber...
Not just the mouthpiece is affected. Metal expands and contracts with temperature, and the density of the air also changes. I think those are probably larger...
Of course temperature affects every type of instrument differently. Most big symphony orchestras have clauses in their contracts about not having to play...
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I'd love to hear from some of you engineers about this, but I think that the higher pitch at higher temperatures is not due to the metal expanding on the...
 Good points.      I think you are right on in what you say. That is probably why bari saxes are the most stable pitch-wise in a sax section once...
I’ll have to say thank you so much to everyone that responded to my question about the mouthpieces. Now I have some really good back up in my answer to the...
A common mistake when refacing, and I did this too when I first started, was to try to continue the curve all the way to the very tip, the middle of the tip...
Hi Paul, I got more or less the same great explanation from you about tips and roll-over baffles a couple of months ago and also acquired some Runyon 22's...
Peter, my comments are interspersed below. ... tips ... finished ... selling. Yes, I told you to begin with, these are excellent mouthpieces and perfectly...
_____ From: STEVE GOODSON [mailto:saxgourmet@...] Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 1:55 PM Subject: Saxophone Repair Group on Yahoo! Since 2004, I have...
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I play in a community band. I heard the 1st chair player speaking about a Johnson mouthpiece. I have never heard of this as being something that clarinet...
I think you mean this maker/player: Dan *Johnston* 41 Ayer Rd Buffalo,NY USA Tel: (716) 633-5573 He makes first rate mouthpieces and works with you on the...
There also were some Selmer-Johnson mouthpieces made for sax. I do not know their history. There also were some Selmer-Johnson mouthpieces made for sax. I do...
Hi fellas - I'm also following this thread, as I have a Bb Clar Johnston-Selmer, New York [in script] mp, with 32109 along-side [right] of the table, ...
I have one for alto, although (according to the ebay seller) it had been refaced. I'm currently using it to play shows - it's a dark sound, round chamber,...
