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 Re: Brad Behn Prescott Mouthpiece
Author: donald 
Date:   2020-03-22 23:19

"Even the wife said it sounded good" ha ha, that's like me- my wife is a top notch player who has freelanced in Europe for 10 years etc and her ear is VERY hard to please.
When we first decided to live together, we were playing on quite similar mouthpieces - then i just made the swap so now we play on identical mouthpieces (there are many advantages to this, one being that when she gigs in Paris she can pick a new one out for me... you may guess we play Vandoren).
I was playing reeds half a size harder than her, and when I switched to her mouthpiece found myself for a while still preferring a slightly harder setup- for about a year I was looking for reeds at about "3.25" hardness out of a box of V12s.
Oddly enough the thing that helped me adapt to the softer reeds was doing lots of bass clarinet practise, and working on my articulation in the upper registers (bass clarinet being quite intolerant of too much embouchure pressure on the higher end). Also, working on relaxing my throat on the bass so that i didn't overblow low end articulation and big jumps also seemed to help.
Anyway, as I teacher I often find myself telling students they are playing on a setup that is too hard (the old "I need a harder reed to sound good" syndrome), but it took me about a year to really adjust to it and get comfortable.

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