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Re: Mouthpiece recommendations

Author: Doug Leach
Date: 2019-07-14 17:25

Plonk,

Well, as to your first question, it may be more than just how the tip rail is worn, and whether it looks more closed or not. The question is how has the entire mouthpiece worn. Plus the narrower width tip rail will have a big effect.
As to your second question this is actually a very common occurrence. I've never seen 2 vandoren mouthpieces of the same model play the same. Their mouthpieces are made by molding. There is so much variation in the cure and shrinkage during cooling in the molding process that you almost never get 2 of the EXACT same thing. It's always been the case of try several and pick the one you like the best. Especially now that Zinner is gone, I believe ithis is why more and more people are moving to CNC machining mouthpieces, to get rid of this variation.

Doug

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