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Re: Legere Inspiration mouthpiece

Author: Jarmo Hyvakko
Date: 2015-12-11 16:34

I have now played for 10 months with PlayEasy mouthpiece. In my experience, cane reed mouthpiece and plastic reed mouthpieces are two different things. Period. Even in Kückmeier's products Solist M plays better with cane and PlayEasy with plastic. Actually i find the PlayEasy practically unplayable with cane! The reed worth trying is Kückmeier's german signature for french clarinet. I've understood that they sell it only direct from their shop. Strengh M is quite close to legere signature's #4.

I don't know in the US, but in Europe they offer to send you a trial package having one of each mouthpiece model, and after you have chosen your model they send four more of that.

My choice is B1. It's the closest and shortest of the three, in Vandoren terms something like 5RV, but has a very soft and dense sound. The B2 feels to me like a B45 and the B3 is a very open and bright.

Their reed has a shorter vamp than legere but the window of their mouthpiece is also shorter than in most mouthpieces. The sound is slightly brighter than legere and more flexible, but still straight from "Musikverein", even with a french clarinet! The reed is made by legere.

Jarmo Hyvakko

Jarmo Hyvakko, Principal Clarinet, Tampere Philharmonic, Finland

Post Edited (2015-12-11 16:37)

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