Author: Tony Pay ★2017
Date: 2016-07-22 15:23
It may be at the back of your mind that you're SPOZED to be using just one mouthpiece for all your playing. But, why is this? You don't think like that about reeds, after all.
Some oboe and bassoon players even routinely change reeds between passages in a piece.
I play on many different instruments, with different fingering systems and different mouthpieces, so I have had to become used to being more 'multilingual' in my playing.
I think that the problem of confusion between 'languages', even for relative beginners on an instrument, is exaggerated. (Think how children adapt to parents with different mother tongues.) Rather, you learn to be more flexible, and this flexibility can bear fruit even when playing different sorts of music on just the one mouthpiece.
Use what gives the best results in given circumstances. What works well in a cathedral may not work so well in the open air.
Of course, that does require that you have some sense of 'working well' – but that's a deeper problem.
Tony
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