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New mouthpiece

Author: steelejackson
Date: 2013-11-13 19:47

I am in 12th grade symphonic band. My director gave me a student mouthpiece (Clarke W Fobes Debut) That i have used for a while. I decided a couple of weeks ago that i needed to upgrade my mouthpiece, considering that the one I was using was a lower quality mouthpiece. I went online and looked up mouthpieces. I went to the vandoren website and read that the b45 dot seemed like it would work the best (I went to vandoren first because i use their reeds). The website says that the b45 dot had greater playing ease than just the regular b45. So i ordered it. I came a few days later, and i tried it out. It worked on my vandoren v12 #3 reeds at first, but now, a couple days later, the sound is coming on and off. It takes a lot of air to get the sound out. Is this from the type of reeds i'm using, or is it the mouthpiece? I noticed that the end of the tray of the mouthpiece is thinner, similar to the heel width of the rue lepic 56 reeds. Not sure if I should try those or just open a new v12 size 3 reed.

Thanks!

Steele

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