Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2017-08-02 18:39
I'm not sure I agree with my friend Bob on all the issues he bought up, especially about tone, reeds, mouthpieces, ligatures etc but I will say this. He's right about not having to pay high prices for quality. As a professional that made his living for over 50 years as a performer I would pay nearly anything if I thought the product gave me what I was looking for. What I discovered was it wasn't necessary, up to a point. I used to try anything and everything I could that came on the market but I discovered that the $500-$600 mouthpiece didn't make me sound or feel better than the one I was already using, though I did change several times in my career. The same with ligatures, reeds etc. When I used to teach at Peabody I'd stock as many mouthpieces as I'd like by trying many over the years. When I wanted to stock some Backuns for my students I called, I knew them, and asked for a discount. I was able to purchase several at half price, $250, that were considered seconds because the names may have been printed with a mistake or some other miss that had nothing to do with the quality of the MP. They sent be six, I picked 2-3 I liked and if a student sounded better on one of those than anything else I'd sell it to them for what I paid. I would not stock a MP for more that than because there were so many other good ones available for reasonable prices. Of course I always tried as many as possible to choose the "best" ones.
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