Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2016-06-01 05:19
Interesting. As several here have suggested, of the several mouthpieces I tried tonight, the closer the tip opening the easier it was to focus E6-G6 and play them in tune. I found, too that, the easiest mouthpiece to play in the altissimo register that I own is my Gigliotti P facing bought in the 1970s and not refaced. So the tip opening is about .96 mm and the curve (with a .0015" feeler) is 38 (19 mm).
It *is* a kind of eye-opener for me how much better the Legeres I tried worked with the very close tip opening. When I start E6 on AG P, it speaks almost without pressure and, once the note focuses, it's in tune without my having to do much of anything. I've been playing on only slightly more open but shorter-curved mouthpieces lately, but when I play E6 with any of those, E6 speaks flat and I have to use extra pressure to bring it up to pitch. On the more open of the mouthpieces I've payed on recently (none more than 1.05 mm), the scooping potential at D6 and E6 is even wider and even more effort is needed from lips and tongue to get a good pitch (as I've already described) with a lot of tension as a consequence.
I haven't tried *every* mouthpiece I own, but I may try using the Legere on a 1.01 mm x 19 mm Chris Hill mouthpiece I dug out of my drawer in a rehearsal. I'm certainly not immune to the attraction of escaping the variability of cane, even though I like the cane reeds I've been using recently very much. I'm still not at the point of no return, but I'm closer than I've ever been.
Karl
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