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Memory Lane First Mouthpiece

Author: Brenda Siewert
Date: 2005-12-20 15:32

While I was answering Inspiring Musician's topic about entering the world of professional mouthpieces, I remembered my first good mouthpiece. I thought perhaps it would be fun for us to share our experiences of how we discovered there were better things out there.

I'd played clarinet for a long time before anyone ever suggested buying a mouthpiece for the purpose of improving my sound. A friend who owned a music store told me that upper level players always buy professional mouthpieces and he suggested a few for me to try. I bought a Gigliotti and played it for several months, but didn't like the difficulty I had in getting volume. One day I was in his store and he said, "Here, try this one and tell me what you think. The professor at ___University here in town is recommending them to all his students." It was a Charles Bay and it was wonderful. I played Bays for several years after that.

That was the beginning of my search for the "Holy Grail" of mouthpieces. Now I am playing Greg Smith, Walter Grabner and Kaspars.

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