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Author: cfarrell
Date: 2017-09-21 09:05
I’m considering switching to one of these, but my experience with the crystal mouthpieces is that they are extremely inconsistent. Last time I tried out a couple Pomaricos, I got three: one was fine, one was borderline unplayable, one was somewhere inbetween. With the retailer’s very limited stock I couldn’t get a combination of playability and dimensions that I liked.
So anyway, my question is: if I’m serious about wanting to switch, how many of them do you think I should get to trial to get a good one? I’ll probably have to get Backun to ship them to me, so I’d like to be efficient. They advertise the quality control on the Backun-branded ones as being higher than the regular Pomaricos, but that doesn’t really help me that much.
Any opinions would be appreciated!
Thanks,
Chris
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Author: Mojo
Date: 2017-09-21 17:00
They could be made very consistently and all be bad for you and your reed choices.
Comsider getting one and having a refacer compare its facing to your favorite mouthpiece.
MojoMP.com
Mojo Mouthpiece Work LLC
MojoMouthpieceWork@yahoo.com
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Author: MartyMagnini
Date: 2017-09-21 21:16
I have tried many Pomarico over the years (I probably own 6 or 7 of them), and also found them to be wildly inconsistent. Found a "wizard" model that I liked better than my MoBa and my Hawkins - had a certain "life" (or ping, as some say) to the sound, while still being dark and "legit" sounding.
I tried a bunch of the Backun mouthpieces at Midwest last year, and they all played extremely consistently (for me, at least). I ended up getting a CG, and it is my main mouthpiece now - quite a big improvement over even the wizard model, IMO. You may want to try the CG+ as well, they told me it was outselling the CG these days.
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Author: cfarrell
Date: 2017-09-22 01:53
The CG seems the closest to what I currently play (an ORT+, which I like a lot). But that’s a good reminder I should try both. Just from the specs, it looks like the CG and CG+ are derived from the Wizard mouthpieces. I liked the “close” version of the Wizard in theory, but had the consistency issue. I only could try one “open” Wizard and couldn’t get that comfortable with it (even trying out a range of reed strengths), but was never sure if it was a bad instance or just too open for my preferences. The fact that one of the three I got was literally unplayable sort of weakened my confidence in the small sample size. It’s good to hear you found the Backun-branded ones more consistent.
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