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Mouthpieces!!!

Author: bbillings
Date: 2015-07-28 21:51

I'd like to pose a question to the members given all the discussion about mouthpieces and the variety available these days.

"Should the advancing student modify their technique to a standard mouthpiece or find a mouthpiece that makes their playing easier?"

I ask this as I've read many opinions about mouthpieces and concerns about mouthpieces and have some of my own. Today we have what seems like limitless options but there were many great players, significant players who had to play stock mouthpieces back when there weren't options, or so it would seem. Sydney Bechet comes to mind as having a wonderful sound but he likely, given the times he lived in and racism, never had near the choices we have at our disposal. So I also ask, doesn't the player make the mouthpiece sound great? Or are we to believe the mouthpiece significantly contributes to the players sound? And lastly, at what point has one developed their playing enough to merit the attempts to tweak ones sound to be their unique sound?

Just some philosophical questions that have occurred to me now that I've been a member of the forum for a few years and been intrigued by the constant equipment searching.

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