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Re: Behn Mouthpiece

Author: gwie
Date: 2015-04-13 12:34

Just an update a year later.

I've actually handed my vintage mouthpieces to a colleague for his fun and experimentation (he is an instrument builder and mouthpiece maker/restorer), as I stopped playing on them entirely. After not forcing myself so hard to play a stiff reed, the results we're really positive so I've actually come down in reed strength again to the 3.5-3.5+ range, now mostly Vandoren V12 on my Behn Artist (.98 facing). It works just as well as my previous setup and I don't have the extreme facial muscle fatigue anymore after a few hours of playing. As I mentioned to Brad during my consultation, I'm getting older and I just wasn't making it through a concert of a Milhaud Trio and a Brahms Quintet in a satisfactory way anymore, and his mouthpiece made a world of difference for me.

I've purchased quite a few of his $35 Overture model mouthpiece for beginning students, and two of my more advanced high school students are using his Zinner line mouthpieces with excellent results.

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