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Re: Open vs. Closed Mouthpieces

Author: kilo
Date: 2019-11-16 21:12

This is totally anecdotal. I've always played on medium tips with medium facings like the HS* or my usual piece, a Grabner K13. As a student I always used Rico 2½'s or 3's on the HS* but moved to Legere Quebec Cut 3¼'s on the Grabner. A friend recently complained that he had purchased a mouthpiece that was "unplayable". It was a Vytas Krass piece and since I'd had Krass do an overhaul on my old Selmer Series 10 I was intrigued and bought the piece. It's a K05, way more closed than anything I'd ever played.

I knew I had a Rico #4 laying around somewhere. I located it, wet the tip, and slapped it on my R13 not knowing what to expect. What emerged was a clear, satisfying, ringing tone with perfect response from top to bottom — "Ping!" I'm mostly playing bass these days and don't plan to adopt a closed piece for it but when called to play soprano in a concert band I've pretty much shifted over to the K05 and a Legere European Signature #4. I just can't argue with the sound or the relative effortlessness in achieving it.

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