Wow, glad to see the progressing interest in this thread. I still have one more month's back rent to pay off; which is done half a month at a time. So, come July we can use the information here, to obtain one of the end blown style mouthpieces, and also a fipple style too.
My clarinet playing is less evolved than on sax or flute; but, my clarinet has been an instrument which I have been able to fool around with: creating modified Bb clarinet mouthpieces by sawing them in half in the middle then using the end the reed mounts on, on my clarinet using a modified ligature.
With some leftover Eb clarinet reeds from another homemade horn made from an Efer's mouthpiece, tuning barrel, bell and the glued together keybody tenons which were sawn off then glued to one another, to join the bell and tuning barrel together. With nine toneholes, only the left thumb missing one, with an incredible dynamic and musical sound, which overblew an octave whose range was about an octave and a minor third.
My clarinet, a wooden Meyer made in the former Yugoslavia someone a stranger had handed me without a case during the early 1980s which though nearly brand new, had been infected by pad mites and was basically an unplayable mess whose very bottom note's pad got replaced with some cork from a wine bottle to be able to get all the notes played chromatically, to hear the thing.
Later, I got creative; fashioning an unusual and effective bell from a plastic phial some Chinese made pills supposed to enhance the immune system; using the lids with their centers cut out, from translucent 35mm plastic film canisters as spacers so my homemade bell's flair on the end made from part of a small, light blue automotive fluid funnel, is the same length as with the original wooden bell. This sounds good whose acoustic characteristics would be interesting to define more extensively in comparison to the standard bell; which seems a little like the bulb-like bell of the double reed English horn.
The clarinet, which was overhauled with new pads and cork using my first Obama stimulous payment for $382 by Ed Davaney who has a nice shop in town employing several tech folk also local musicians: also sports a micro tuner tuning barrel Audrey Jackson of Forrests Music in Berkeley gave me in a box of their Bb clarinet mouthpieces and tuning barrels, they'd used then saved over several decades..a multi-instrumentalist playing bay area stage shows as a woodwind virtuoso whose original instrument was clarinet.
www.forrestsmusic.com
The instrument looks pretty amazing and sounds good, with the light blue plastic automotive fluid funnel pieces used not only for a little flair on the end of the pill phial bell; but, also a small tubular chunk of blue plastic funnel bore, to link to one of three modified Bb mouthpieces using Eb reeds, to the top end of the microtuner tuning barrel.
What I think of now as a feasible direction for me musically, at least to fanticize about; would be producing and providing live music for puppet shows, perhaps also using other musicians too. Our three hour, once a week I. H. S. S./In Home Supportive Services [ a California state program administered by the counties ] caregiver the fall of 2004 Sarah "Fred" Sherburn-Zimmer, is a professional community and labor organizer, also a trained puppeteer who has aspired to play accordion and can be seen in YouTube twice addressing Frisco's city council in Fred's capacity since January of 2016 as executive director of the Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco. Fred organised and produced the summer of 2005's Lost Coast Puppet Feast in remote Petrolia, CA's grange hall over a three day weekend that I'd attended: later designing a clever puppet stage combining marionettes and screen puppets, constructed using materials previously used to build portable shelving I have built..3/8" plywood, six foot cedar fencing slats, 1" x 2" eight foot long fir furring strips, and lots of wood glue, sheet rock screws and carriage bolts.
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