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Re: Comparable mpcs to 5RV?

Author: Bob Bernardo
Date: 2017-10-25 23:09

I have to add something short. Eddie Daniels a top musician and a great jazz player was using a 1.10mm mouthpiece opening. This is not too open. About the same as what Robert Marcellus used.

Jazz players are known to want open mouthpieces. 1.20mm. But Eddie has a youtube message about how he went all the way down to a 1.03mm tip opening. This is considered to be a close tip opening. A lot of double lip players and of course single lip players really like this opening.

I'm not trying to tell anyone what to do here, but comfort is often so important. You don't have to have bleeding or very sore lips after 2 hours of playing. At 1.03 this is an area of when you can play for several hours, put more of the mouthpiece in your mouth and get more of the heart of the reeds vibrating. Producing a deeper, richer, warmer sound and no pinching in the upper register.

Designer of - Vintage 1940 Cicero Mouthpieces and the La Vecchia mouthpieces

Yamaha Artist 2015

Post Edited (2017-10-25 23:09)

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