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Author: seabreeze
Date: 2018-04-14 00:20
Has anybody on the list tried (or adopted) any of the Wi&Fi clarinet mouthpieces advertised here? If so, what are your impressions? Evidently in Europe they sell for between $200 and $300 but have no distributor in the US.
https://www.willie-fitz.com.
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Author: gavalanche20
Date: 2018-04-14 00:27
I haven't tried them, but aren't they stylized Wi&Fi, as opposed to Wi-Fi, like the internet? I find it interesting that the descriptions for their facings seem very close if not identical to the descriptions for the Vandoren mouthpiece facings.
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Author: Klose ★2017
Date: 2018-04-14 00:45
Wow, their mouthpieces are expensive.
But in my opinion, without an innovation of the material, it's hard for their mouthpieces to be much better than Vandoren, because I think Vandoren basically has covered nearly all types of facings etc. The selling point of their mouthpieces is that they claim they are Legere friendly, which is certainly a good reason for people to have a try.
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Author: seabreeze
Date: 2018-04-14 00:54
Gabriel, you are correct that the mouthpiece brand is "Wi & Fi" rather than what one would expect from the URL willie-fitz.com with the short hyphen rather than the ampersand. So I'm changing the tag to include the ampersand.
Klose, the company claims the mouthpieces are made of a new composite (that contains quartz?) and not the rubber used by Vandoren. The facings do seem to be rather like the facing on the Vandoren B40 with a tip opening of about 1.19 mm, but the Wi & Fi S0 model is much shorter. The baffle also seems to be different from Vandoren's but I'd have to see one "in person" to be sure.
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Author: dorjepismo ★2017
Date: 2018-04-14 08:05
Actually ran into one of their artists, Chen Wei-Leng. Very decent player, but he wasn't playing these when I heard him. Be fun to try some of these out if there's an opportunity.
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Author: xiao yu
Date: 2018-04-15 04:59
WI'FI Plays like playeasy MP, made in Taiwan.
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Kenny clarinet studio from China.
Lyrique libertas, ridenour hw mp,legere euro cut reeds.
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Author: seabreeze
Date: 2018-04-15 05:57
Do all the Wi&Fi models play like the Austrian Nick Kuckmeier Play Easy mouthpieces, or just the "German" model? And which Play Easy do they resemble, the B1, B2, or B3?
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Author: xiao yu
Date: 2018-04-15 06:31
I forget which model I tried at Shanghai musical expo in 2016. And it plays like playeasy B2 .
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Kenny clarinet studio from China.
Lyrique libertas, ridenour hw mp,legere euro cut reeds.
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Author: cigleris
Date: 2018-04-19 21:16
Seabreeze, you emailed me but I’m not sure if you got my reply regarding these.
Peter Cigleris
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Author: seabreeze
Date: 2018-04-19 21:56
Hi, Peter. For some reason I did not receive your reply. If you would like to share it with everyone, please do so here. If not, I would be happy to see it on my email bobm20001@yahoo.com.
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