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Re: crystal mouthpieces

Author: Bob Bernardo
Date: 2019-07-22 03:51

I'm not saying the French curve isn't out there. It is! 1000's and 1000's! But I don't like it. It's even worse on plastic reeds. If your plastic reed doesn't work well 2 things are possible. The mouthpiece or you simply don't like how they vibrate like me as a double lip player. My mouth gets too sore. Upper and lower lips.

So get your mouthpiece or mouthpieces checked and fixed by really good experts. You may be shocked when you first play the newly fixed MP and think to yourself - Wow! All of these years I've played on the wonderful mouthpiece, but it's now even better!

I'm sure glad I took Bob's advice and had it refaced the right way. Best of luck to all of you.

JC - I agree with you. I'm not into fabric. I still feel strongly the mouthpiece has to vibrate too and it may sound brighter up close but again I must warn players that the brightness is actually related to hearing overtones. We surely don't want to kill the overtones. We all have to be sooo careful with the words dark and warm. Our ears fool us all of the time. A lot of people with great sounds find themselves playing of crystal mouthpieces for that reason. I'm not saying to go to crystal at all. There are wonderful hard rubber mouthpieces close to the hardness of glass and the problem is if you drop the glass mouthpiece it shatters and you don't have to pick it up! A bad joke.

I also hate huge patch protectors where the teeth land on the beak. Some players bite though these. If you have this issue it's time to get some lessons on your embouchure. You need to use a thin patch.

Cheers!

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

Yamaha Artist 2015

Post Edited (2019-07-22 03:57)

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