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Re: Legere Inspiration mouthpiece

Author: seabreeze
Date: 2015-02-11 07:04

David,

Do you know if Wenzel plays a Kuckmeier mouthpiece that has a titanium sound ring added to the tenon? Kuckmeier advertises these on his website and says that they greatly increase the resonance and carrying power of the mouthpieces. He charges a cool $340.00 to fit one of these rings to one of his mouthpieces. (He won't put them on other brands, so far as I know).

If anyone is interested in these, google to Titanium sound rings Nick Kuckmeier, and the first hit should take you there.

Innoledy in New York (close to Lincoln Center) now stocks Kuckmeier cl. mouthpieces in Play Easy B2 and Soloist M models.

http://www.innoledy.com.

My experience with Kuckmeiers is that they are just about the darkest and most covered sounding mouthpiece you can buy. At first I didn't like them, but after having my favorite techs work on both a Play Easy B2 and a Soloist M, I found both very stable (really hard to squeak or overblow to a high register by accident), nicely round and solid in staccato, and very flexible especially in making downward slurs across registers. They can make some Boehms (for example the Yamaha CSG III) come very close to the sound of an Oehler clarinet with a Viennese bore. They are a bit resistant but not overly fussy in reed matching.

I haven't tried composite reeds, but both the B2 and the Soloist M play well with traditional Vandoren cane reeds and the new Vandoren V21s. The Soloist M seems to have a little more width and edge to the sound than the pitch black timbre of the Play Easy B2, but both play very dark and Viennese in tone.

Post Edited (2015-02-11 09:32)

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