Author: donald
Date: 2013-11-19 09:15
Hi, when I was at the Australian Clarinet/Sax conference in July of this year I was lucky enough to be part of a "sit down" with Frank Celata, David Thomas and Andrew Marriner where they tried out each other's mouthpieces/clarinets etc. Andrew Marriner had a number of prototype mouthpieces from Rico/Lee Livengood- various facings etc that were more open than the others in their range, and with less resistance built in to the blank (ie, more "free blowing", or less "hold" depending on your point of view).
I quite liked one of these, but don't know if it was selected as the "model". Those of you who find the Rico Reserve mouthpiece to be too resistant might like to try these- though I found all the prototypes I played had more "back pressure" than popular mouthpieces like M30/B40 (B40 is very popular in Europe, and not just at student level), and the Backun Range (which I find very easy to play, but a little "gutless").
dn
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