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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
... 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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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:...
... 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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. ... ...
... normal tip rails. What we might be talking about is a manufacturing anomaly. ... tiprail ... Vandoren is thinking. If you take material off just behind...
... 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...
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...