Author: gatto
Date: 2018-10-23 21:37
Hi Cath,
which mouthpiece do you use?
I can understand your problem. I was a late starter, with 30, and after playing some years, I had a break of 10 years or so. Two years ago I started again.
After restarting I was not happy with my former favorite mouthpieces, the Vandoren B40 and B45dot, using reeds #2.5 - 3.0.
I bought the BD5 and was happy immediately with it. But I had the ambition to use reeds #3.5, since I found #3.0 a little too weak in the altissimo. It was very hard, both for my lungs and for my jaws. I could not play longer than 20 minutes, and even then was quite exhausted. After 1,5 years or so, it became better. Now I find #3.5 not a big deal, but I seldomly play much longer than 30 minutes. Recently I also tried the B40 Lyre, and I like this mouthpiece also very much. Both have a good response in the altissimo. For the BD5 I use Vandoren reeds V21, for the B40 Lyre the V.12, both #3.5 (sometimes 3.0); it seems for me, that the different reeds fit better to the respective mouthpieces, don't know why.
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