I have made several ‘Moes that use Bb clarinet mouthpieces, as well as others using alto clarinet, tenor sax, and tenor recorder mouthpieces. The original ‘Moes were made to work with standard, store-bought woodwind mouthpieces.
We’ll touch on register holes, fabrication of single reed mouthpieces, making barrel joints to accommodate store-bought mouthpieces, and minimally toxic plastics for making homemade wind instrument tubes.Īn Easy Way to Make Barrel Joints to Connect Mouth pieces to Tubes. The current article is a hodge-podge of notes on those more widely applicable topics. Some of that shop time was spent on things that are not specific only to ‘Moe, but are of general interest in the area of homemade wind instrument making. I described the resulting developments in ’Moe design in this recently uploaded article. I recently spent some time in the shop doing a new round of experimenting with wind instruments of the family that I call ‘Moe.
