Ramón's Blog

Earlier this year I was fortunate enough to come across a large stock of 1970's Riffault clarinet mouthpiece blanks - Bb, Eb and bass.  I followed up a lead and made a trip to see the owner - from their description it sounded like these were worth looking at.  Once I...

Last year was my first mouthpiece trip to Philadelphia.  Richie Hawley was in town, and we met at Mark Jacobi's house and worked on a few mouthpieces.  We were visiting Donald Montanaro later in the evening - Don had some old Cheds that needed fixing.  We finished a...