Author: marshall
Date: 2009-01-30 06:01
For what it's worth, I personally use an M15 in orchestral and solo settings and an M13 lyre in chamber settings.
I don't think that you should rely on the mouthpiece to give you a 'brighter' or 'darker' sound, your equipment doesn't make the player. At the same time, I think different mouthpieces can make it easier to do, and enhance, what you're doing. Certain mouthpieces are much brighter and easier to project with, while others offer a much darker, covered sound.
What I mean to say is, you should be able to change the colour of your sound on a single mouthpiece, after all, you need an entire palette of colours in a single piece, but using different mouthpieces for different settings can help you achieve the general colour you want. If I were playing the Mozart concerto, I'd probably be playing a different mouthpiece than if I were playing, say, Kovacs' Hommage a M. da Falla. At the same time, I know that I'd be able to play the Kovacs on the same mouthpiece as the Mozart, it would just be a little easier to get the sound I want on a different 'piece.
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