Author: vintschevski
Date: 2016-04-11 02:18
I think I know what samoma1 is getting at as my experience has been similar (I think). I prefer the harder reeds and tried the usual recommendations for an appropriate mouthpiece (close tip, longer facing), including most of those that samoma1 mentions, also a couple of Hawkins, a Fobes Cicero and a Grabner - and I found that generally reeds in strength 4 worked well on them, while 5 reeds were not so successful, at best they produced nice tone, but not volume. I really began to think that nobody actually made mouthpieces with reeds of strength 5 in mind - and perhaps they don't, given how few people seem to use the 5 reeds. I did, however, have the good fortune to "win" a V.Krass K1 mouthpiece on a certain wellknown auction site and hurrah, it's a beauty for both Vandoren Traditional 5s and V12 5s (I haven't tried any RL56 reeds on it). Sure, sometimes I need to judiciously scrape them, but other times I've just slapped on a reed out of the box and away I go, very happy indeed, great tone and volume with real ring and easy altissimo. I think you could say that I would happily recommend it, but who knows how other people might find it, mightn't suit them at all.
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