Author: gwie
Date: 2019-12-15 11:13
Brad's mouthpieces are awesome, and his mouthpiece line covers nearly all the bases. I've started a lot of beginners and even pulled intermediate players on inconsistent pieces back to the Overture mouthpiece, which works superbly well and like the Fobes Debut, is about as best as one will get with an inexpensive acrylic mouthpiece. Prior to a hiatus from teaching clarinet students due to a career shift, I had about a half-dozen kids playing on his Zinner model and we obtained consistently delightful results in tone quality, articulation, and ease of play.
Personally, after a three-plus year break from using any cane reeds at all, I've started using the Aria 3.5 reeds again with one of his older Vintage model mouthpieces (the design preceding the current HCV series), and it's just an amazingly resonant and comfortable experience all around, and I hardly have any reeds in the box that I can't use. I find my Epic HCV works a bit better than this older one does with the Legere Signature European Cut 3.5 so I use that when I'm on synthetic.
Throughout all of this, I've always had my many questions answered in exquisite detail. I'm not a full time symphony player nor a soloist, but Brad shared a lot of his time and expertise with me in my mouthpiece search and recovery from excessive playing fatigue, and I will always be grateful!
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