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Re: Maxton Mouthpieces

Author: Micke Isotalo ★2017
Date: 2020-02-06 14:39

Formerly Johannes Gleichweit and Martin Fluch ran Maxton together, but now they've separated so Gleichweit runs his own line of mouthpieces and Fluch continues running Maxton. Maxton has renewed (and renamed) their whole mouthpiece line, where as I understand the facings are the same as before but the material is new. I've tried a few pieces of these renewed ones and I found them to be an improvement tonally as well as how they felt in my mouth (the previous ones gave me a "plastic" and "screechy" feel, while it may not have translated to how they actually sounded).

That said, I still stayed with my Playnick A' - from their previous line of Viennese facing mouthpieces.

Monsterchef, the only most basic advice I can give you is to play a lot of long tone exercises. I'm not a strong advocate of such on a regular basis, but whenever you make changes to your embouchure they are essential in establishing those changes (since at long tone exercises you don't need to concentrate on anything else but your embouchure).

I also play Viennese facings on RB clarinets, and yet another advice I could give is to really make sure you take in enough mouthpiece - considering the very long facings. I thought myself I was doing just that for the first about two years I played on those, but realized just last summer that I needed to take in still more (tone became better, especially in the low register).

Post Edited (2020-02-06 14:47)

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