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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2019-11-23 10:31
Hmmmm...........
I haven't mentioned ALL the mouthpieces I've been through in the last year......... are you a stalker?
:-)
So actually let me delineate what I have been using. My recent renaissance started when noticed that Walter Grabner had a "Chicago" facing. I had been seeking an experience I had many many years ago with a Frank Kasper mouthpiece and figured this shorter facing would be the ticket. I indeed found a great experience and bought two of them (need a back up of course).
Then I decided to ask Clark Fobes if he could shorten one of his already short facings to match what Grabner did. He in fact did and I eventually bought two of those (I need back ups as I mentioned before) because I got a little more "ping" out of those.
Then a friend of mine was cleaning out a bunch of old things she never planned on using again and was selling off eBay. One of the items was an old Hawkins R facing that was going cheap and I bought that because I thought I might want to try the Vocalise. Turns out the old Hawkins R is amazing and I bought another one of those (you know, back up) and found out the Vocalise is a piece of crap.
When I attended the ClarinetFest in Knoxville I ran into an old friend, Ben Redwine and realized that he custom makes mouthpieces (to whatever dimensions you want......now that's custom!!!). So I bought one of his Custom Gennusa Retros and it is AMAZING!!!! It turns out though I did have to do some embouchure retraining that took a little while to pull the best aspects of Ben Redwine's mouthpiece out. I have not bought a back up of that one.....yet.
But through all that (about a year and a half) I only wound up wobbling between the Legere European cut 3 1/2 vs. the Legere European cut 3 1/4 (where I am now).
I just did the math. It is actually a new mouthpiece every two and a half months
Still, you were damn close.
....................Paul Aviles
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