Author: Jack Kissinger
Date: 2011-07-05 03:12
Since you are looking for a mouthpiece for your young daughter to begin on, if I were you, I would continue to focus on the Hite and Fobes. At least some of the other mouthpieces mentioned above would almost certainly work as well. However, I see no point in obsessing over which of several different makes is best in this case, because there is no clear answer and no convenient way for you to find it if there was. The truth is that any one of the makes identified so far is probably about as good as the next. They have all been designed specifically for beginners by top-notch mouthpiece craftsmen. With that in mind, I would focus on finding a mouthpiece that I was confident will work. I think you can be confident that either the Hite or the Fobes will work. Adding others into the mix at this point, IMO, is unnecessary complication.
I have play-tested both the Hite and the Fobes. Others may disagree with this assessment, but I find the Hite very slightly less resistant than the Fobes. For this reason, for my own use, I would prefer the Fobes. But I am not a 10-year-old beginner. When my daughter started clarinet lessons about the same age, I gave her a Hite because I felt it would be ever so slightly easier for her to start on. After about a year, when her embouchure and air support had developed, I let her try a Fobes which, as I suspected, she then preferred. I could do this easily because I happened to have both. FWIW, I think my daughter would have been fine had she started on the Fobes. I also think she would have been fine had she continued, at least for awhile, on the Hite. But, if I were only going to buy one mouthpiece and wanted it to work in the beginning and carry my daughter for potentially several years, it would be the Fobes.
Best regards,
jnk
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