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Author: Musikat
Date: 2017-06-04 05:23
I posted this comment on a different thread, but I thought it was interesting, particularly coming from a 10 year old that has been playing less than a year.
I ordered him the Behn Overture mouthpiece to replace his 4C because we were having trouble finding good reeds, either Rico Royal or Vandoren. It came in the mail the day of his spring band concert this past Thursday. His instrument was at school, so I let him try it on my Buffet, along with the Aria 3 reeds I had ordered with it, and several of his "rejected" Vandoren 2's, and there was a definite difference. He was able to play on 3 out of 5 of the Arias and many of the Vandorens that had seemed too stuffy on the old mouthpiece.
He played on the new mouthpiece that night and just picked his best reed from what was in his case, without even having a chance to try it. After the concert I asked him how it went . He told me that sometimes there are two toys that when you get both you can put them together and make something even better. This was like that.
Many thanks for all the advice on my threads about this topic!
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Author: seabreeze
Date: 2017-06-04 05:51
Kind of a "clarinet/mouthpiece/reed synergy," I would say, even better than the expected sum of the parts. The Behn Overture is made of acrylic, which I used to believe was always a step below rubber as a mouthpiece material, but the success of both the Behn Overture and the Fobes Debut acrylic mouthpieces made me wonder if acrylic might have its own special charms. The German ESM acrylic mouthpieces designed as pro models for Bohem clarinets really made me change my mind. The ESM black acrylic without a tenon ring, the ESM black acrylic with a metal tenon ring, and the blue "Heaven" acrylic model--all in Roger McKinny's facing, MCK1, just might be some of the best machine made mouthpieces on the market today. Pleasant, well-balanced core sound, consistent quality control, and excellent tuning make these very much worth trying. I've found they sound especially good on recordings.
Post Edited (2017-06-04 17:16)
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Author: ClarinetRobt
Date: 2017-06-04 06:42
Best review ever from a mouthpiece and reed is from a 10 year old. Brad would be crazy to not put that on his website.
I never knew fobes' & behn's mouthpieces were acrylic. I know a lot of schools are using their mouthpieces in Texas with beginner through HS students...over a vandoren option...with great success.
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