I spent some time today mixing and matching some ligatures and caps to a Guardala Laser Cut Tenor Mouthpieces. The older WW&BW ones with the metal ligs came...
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Keith Bradbury
kwbradbury
Dec 2, 2006 11:34 pm
Also, a BG metal lig, L28MJ, fits the Guardala. It is a two rail reed contact ligature. It is somewhat unusual in that the metal band of the lig is made so...
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Rocco
rambert1be
Dec 4, 2006 11:38 am
Hi all, I joined this group a month ago. I just play saxophone and am not a technician, but am very interested in the technical side of both saxophones and...
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Keith Bradbury
kwbradbury
Dec 4, 2006 12:40 pm
I do not think you can do much harm in this area. If I understand you, it is an uneven shape inside the throat. Runyons typically have seams there, called...
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Paul C.
tenorman1952
Dec 4, 2006 3:44 pm
That would take far too long. Use a simple round file. Place several layers of tape, vinyl electrical tape is fine, over the baffle and tip rail so that you...
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Rocco
rambert1be
Dec 5, 2006 12:50 pm
Paul, Keith, thank you both for your advise. I removed the extra rims of the throat yesterday evening with the only round file I had (the fine grained glass...
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Edward McLean
keith29236
Dec 13, 2006 4:31 pm
Is it a closely guarded secret, or can someone please tell me how to obtain easy altissimo notes by designing this into a CLARINET mouthpiece. I have no...
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andrewhdonaldson
andrewhdonal...
Dec 13, 2006 11:43 pm
I've played around with clarinet facings a bit. Pure circular curves don't seem to work that well, being rather resistant above middle B. A shape that works...
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STEVE GOODSON
saxgourmet
Dec 17, 2006 3:01 pm
I'm sure that many members of this list attend the upcoming music shows and conferences. I would be pleased and honored to meet as many of you as possible and...
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railwayreed
Dec 17, 2006 7:14 pm
Hi, I am new to this mouthpiece group, and have worked as a refacer for about6months. I recently recieved a Vandoren al3 mouthpiece from a classical saxophone...
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Edward McLean
keith29236
Dec 17, 2006 8:18 pm
... Thanks for the comments Andrew. I think that using extra short lays may be contributing to the reed's lack of response when vibrating on the highest notes....
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Matthew August Stohrer
abadclichex
Dec 18, 2006 2:53 am
Hello all, I apologize if this has been gone over before, but... The link on the mouthpiecework site for the feeler gauges is down (the one in the tools...
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Dan Torosian
dantorosian
Dec 18, 2006 3:50 am
I got a set of feeler gauges up to .035" at an auto parts store (Pep Boys) for $5-$10. When supplemented with the larger feeler gauges made by Jeff Rosner (of...
4741
tenorman1952
Dec 18, 2006 6:26 am
I belong to a number of Yahoo Groups besides this one, among them, the Bass Sax Coop. Joseph wrote: Hi, a community college here has a Keilwerth bass sax...
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Edward McLean
keith29236
Dec 18, 2006 1:59 pm
I use Auto feelers and .25" plate glass ex-bathroom shelf. Happy Christmas all. Eddie...
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Keith Bradbury
kwbradbury
Dec 18, 2006 3:20 pm
There is another source for larger feelers at: http://www.mitchellstore.com/ I have not tried these, but they should work. I recommend you use a micrometer to...
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joe piccolo
manzollomusic
Dec 18, 2006 5:33 pm
Check out Lee Valley its 9"X12" its not the great pink granite, but it's within .0005" purdy durn flat joe Matthew August Stohrer <abadcliche@...> wrote:...
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Matthew August Stohrer
abadclichex
Dec 19, 2006 2:27 am
Excellent point to Lee Valley- that surface plate is 32 bucks, just the right size, and accurate to .0001! ...
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Keith Bradbury
kwbradbury
Dec 19, 2006 2:12 pm
... I updated the tools file to point to Jeff's new location: http://www.shmuelyosef.com/Saxophones/index.html However Jeff is not offering the larger feelers...
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Toby
kymarto
Dec 19, 2006 2:55 pm
I hope some others might chime in as well with their experiences, but mine has been that thinning the tip rail will not make the mpc brighter at all, but it...
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Peter Healey
petesajazzer
Dec 19, 2006 3:24 pm
I am fairly inexperienced as a clarinet player (3 years or so) and certainly not a refacer but look at the posts with great interest.
Something Toby said was...
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railwayreed
Dec 19, 2006 5:55 pm
Thanks for your advise Toby,glad to hear that thinning the tiprail wont make the mouthpc more bright.The mouthpc I am talking about seems to be very similar to...
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Keith Bradbury
kwbradbury
Dec 19, 2006 9:10 pm
My experiance is mostly with sax moutpieces. Sax MP experiances do not translate well to clarinet MPs. I think thinning the tip rail makes the MP more...
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Toby
kymarto
Dec 20, 2006 12:41 am
The clarinet is a completely different animal than the sax, notwithstanding that both are single reed instruments. The physics of the two are quite different,...
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Toby
kymarto
Dec 20, 2006 1:01 am
I have a Vandoren A35 with a very normal tip rail. God knows what Vandoren is thinking. If you take material off just behind the tip rail you can smooth that...
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Keith Bradbury
kwbradbury
Dec 20, 2006 2:17 am
I find that a radial facing is very free blowing on a clarinet. Too free blowing for normal classical tip openings. But they come in handy for wide tip...
4754
Geoff & Sherryl-Lee S...
greatstuffmusic
Dec 20, 2006 2:37 am
I have just checked an AL4 and SL3 from my stock, and both have very normal tip rails. What we might be talking about is a manufacturing anomaly. Geoff. ... ...
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Edward McLean
keith29236
Dec 20, 2006 11:46 am
... normal tip rails. What we might be talking about is a manufacturing anomaly. ... tiprail ... Vandoren is thinking. If you take material off just behind...
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marcorosano
Dec 21, 2006 2:42 am
... Incidentally, I just bought a Vandoren B45 "Lyre", and the tip and side rails are much thicker than on my regular B45. Perhaps their manufacturing is...
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Bob Phillips
rwphillipsidaho
Dec 21, 2006 4:42 pm
I just picked up a second Vandoren M30/13 (88 beak shape) -clarinet- to back-up my favorite 'piece. It is hugely different. machine marks on the table and...
