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Re: The GREAT ESM Mouthpiece!

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2014-12-22 17:49

You know, I've gone through my own fantastic voyage with the Legere reeds and I find that it is very difficult to find that "air/embouchure balance" in order to achieve a good sound. When it DOES happen, that balance point is VERY narrow and does NOT allow for any variance of pitch (to any workable degree) so you find yourself in the position of an oboe player having to work with what you have......period.

For me, the solution was two fold. On my closed mouthpieces I needed to maintain a slightly harder Legere than what I liked in a Vandoren which works out to an equivalent strength Quebec cut Legere. The other solution may actually be the best in the long run (if I were willing to change up everything for this project). I found (for myself) that the 3.75 Quebec seemed to be an ideal in resistance and sound. But to make them work I needed to change my mouthpiece (B40 seemed to work pretty well). As I am less inclined to throw out the last 14 years of development, that solution must wait.

In the end, going back to a Vandoren reed just opened up all the colors and flexibility of dynamics and pitch that are shrunken to a small point by synthetic reeds........they are still not at the point where they are 'state-of-the-art.'

.............Paul Aviles

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