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Author: soloartist13
Date: 2015-11-25 09:50
Has anyone had experience with this mouthpiece? I'm wondering if it has more compatibility with the Legere reeds since it is from the same company?
http://store.legere.com/c/mouthpieces_clarinet?action_type=switch_product&selected_cat_keys=70744.48596.0.0.0&selected_product=4d67900eab974c8a368222808bf31803&redirected_post=1
Thank you!
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2015-11-25 14:55
Gosh, this is an interesting development. I can't say that I am surprised. It seems a natural extension of a bunch of mouthpiece makers who have started to make mouthpieces that are specifically designed for the Legere.
I have JUST started down the path of experimenting with the German mouthpieces (that require a much less active embouchure) on French clarinets with the Legere. Funny thing is this notice makes the statement, "This mouthpiece requires less power up front while delivering more power to the instrument," which sounds a lot like what is happening in Europe with the German mouthpiece users.
I would really be interested to hear from someone trying one of these who already has success with a more standard German mouthpiece and German style Legere reeds.
.................Paul Aviles
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Author: soloartist13
Date: 2015-11-26 03:37
After contacting Legere, it turns out they don't have a trial policy on these mouthpieces. How they expect them to be a success without any trial/return policy is beyond me!
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2015-11-26 08:33
That demonstrates some confidence in their product. How long would it take for some negative reviews to start surfacing?
But let's see who will be the first........... I'm committed to the German mouthpiece experiment for the next few months so someone else is going to have to step up!
.................Paul Aviles
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Author: CEC
Date: 2015-11-27 07:43
This is not a demonstration of confidence. In the least.
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Author: sonicbang
Date: 2015-11-27 20:03
'After years of design and engineering collaboration between two very passionate musical perfectionists - Guy Légère and Nick Kückmeier - we proudly offer the Inspiration Mouthpiece Combination.'
I found this description on the Auction Site in the ad of a music shop from UK. This makes the story very simple. Kückmeier would like to make more business overseas so the mouthpieces are now in a different packaging. He has been making mouthpiece for Legere reeds for a while.
I was interested in playing synthetic reeds because of the highly varying playing conditions. I've tried the Playeasy mouhpieces by Kückmeier with (and even without) Legere, but it quickly turned out they are not for me. What was meant to be a dark and full sound was actually dull and unfocused. Certainly this is a trend today, but I think it's unnatural and unhealthy. I bet others's opinion differs.
Mark
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Author: sfalexi
Date: 2015-11-27 20:18
I'm surprised Legere didn't team up with Richard Hawkins. He's been a LONG time supporter of the reed and his mouthpieces are already fairly well-known as well as being a well-known clinician AND a legere artist. I mean, I know business is business and I'm sure the deal they made with this other person was just maybe better than they could get with Richard Hawkins, but still a little surprising.
Side note:
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That demonstrates some confidence in their product.... Quote:
This is not a demonstration of confidence....
Kinda interesting how we interpret things differently. Could confidence that they know they won't need returns so why bother offering them. Could be a lack of confidence and an apprehension of trials just to have them returned with reviews of "not good enough to keep". Just interesting....
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Author: seabreeze
Date: 2015-11-27 22:37
Mark,
Legere has run the same description of the Kuckmeier "Inspiration" mouthpiece on his direct-sales website in English at http://www.legere.com. Just click on "inspiration mouthpiece" or "clarinet mouthpiece" there. It seems that Kuckmeier has been pretty busy of late, offering new titanium ligatures (search Titanium ligatures playnick.com on google) and a new "limited edition" Sabine Meyer/Reiner Wehle mouthpiece in two different facings (search Sabine Meyer and Reiner Wehle playnick.com).
I find it hard to differentiate among the 4 different models he now offers for French Boehm Clarinet--the Play Easy, the Soloist, the Inspiration, and the Meyer/Wehle. I've tried several Play Easy B2 and Soloist M pieces, and agree that they play very dark but lack the core resonance and central sparkle of many other mouthpieces. They are also more resisitant than I like. I recently attended a joint recital by two clarinetists--one playing a Kuckmeier Play Easy B2 and the other a Vandoren M13. I sat in the back row of the medium-size college auditorium and was a little surprised that the sound from the M13 player seemed a little larger and had more spatial presence in the hall than the sound from the Kuckmeier player.
If you stand on the stage of the same hall and alternate these peices, you get just the opposite impression. The Kuckmeier seems "beefier" and more substantial. From a distance, it isn't that the Kuckmeier doesn't project because it does. But it doesn't bloom and fill up space the way the seemingly smaller sound of the M13 does.
At least that is what my ears are telling me.
Post Edited (2015-11-28 01:06)
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Author: WhitePlainsDave
Date: 2015-11-27 23:23
I tried the mouthpiece on my cane reeds.
I found it useful, when my reeds were too hard, to boil the mouthpiece for a quick second or two....although I found the need to do this the next time I played as well.
Not thrilled with it, Legere assured me I could return it for another strength mouthpiece.
(Yes---that WAS intended as satire.)
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Author: sonicbang
Date: 2015-11-28 01:52
seabreeze,
That's exactly what I'm talking about. Regarding this, even the Vandoren and Zinner material works better (with the right dimensions) than Kückmeier's. The material is like soft rubber rather than hard rubber, and it takes away all the high overtones which would carry the sound to the back of the concert hall. That is not a subjective thing, it's physics. The only useful place for mouthpieces like this is maybe a studio where the microphone is only 1 meter away. Sorry again if I hurt any other's feelings.
Mark
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Author: gclari
Date: 2015-12-23 02:21
Tried it, don't like it. Can't produce notes in the upper altissimo range which I can normally produce on other mouthpieces. Working on returning the mouthpiece. Apparently Legere is working on a new return policy. This makes sense because they have never been in the mouthpiece business.
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