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Re: Playnick's new mouthpieces

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2018-05-06 09:10

I just posted on another thread about my "SUCCESS" mouthpiece/Legere combination. On a meeting with Mike Lomax, I was "schooled" on the affects of various facing lengths. The shorter a facing, the stiffer the reed will feel. Mike strummed a wooden ruler hanging off the end of a table to make his point. It went 'BOING.' Then he moved it back so that a little less ruler extended off the table and it went, 'BING.' Taking that concept to a mouthpiece, you can use the same tip opening and make the mouthpiece more "resistant" (or LOUDER) by making the facing shorter. [actually that would be different mouthpieces with the same tip opening and shorter facings. Making tip openings bigger and facings longer is easy. The reverse is hard if not destructive and for all practical purposes impossible]

I am currently using a 1.00 tip opening with a VERY short 14.00mm length facing and a #2 Legere German cut reed. You would NOT believe how loud that is !!!!

.............Paul Aviles

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