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A young player's observation on a new mouthpiece

Author: Musikat
Date: 2017-06-04 05:23

I posted this comment on a different thread, but I thought it was interesting, particularly coming from a 10 year old that has been playing less than a year.

I ordered him the Behn Overture mouthpiece to replace his 4C because we were having trouble finding good reeds, either Rico Royal or Vandoren. It came in the mail the day of his spring band concert this past Thursday. His instrument was at school, so I let him try it on my Buffet, along with the Aria 3 reeds I had ordered with it, and several of his "rejected" Vandoren 2's, and there was a definite difference. He was able to play on 3 out of 5 of the Arias and many of the Vandorens that had seemed too stuffy on the old mouthpiece.

He played on the new mouthpiece that night and just picked his best reed from what was in his case, without even having a chance to try it. After the concert I asked him how it went . He told me that sometimes there are two toys that when you get both you can put them together and make something even better. This was like that.

Many thanks for all the advice on my threads about this topic!

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