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Re: How is my progress?

Author: Dan Shusta
Date: 2021-04-20 19:41

Liquorice, wow! I sense an awful lot of anger towards me! If you weren't playing games with me, then why the gotcha, runaround question concerning all of your mouthpieces?

"I guess I have to spell it out:" Oh boy, here we go again...a classic put-down statement.

If you felt convinced that my suggestion constituted bad advice from the beginning, then why didn't you just say so from the start?

I believe that you have really bought into Richard Hawkin's misleading ad statement that he has created, or at least helped create, the perfect mouthpiece. To me, that's equivalent to a shoe designer saying that he or she has created the perfect shoe for everyone. That, of course, is nonsense due to everyone having different sized feet. As to mouthpieces, not all embouchures are identical and the tonal coloring simply cannot be a total winner with everyone. Did you notice that Beth and cigleris both play on 3.5 strength reeds? Why don't they play on a 4 or a 4.5? I believe that a 3.5 presents them with a comfortable resistance level coupled with a tonal color that they like.

Was my advice bad? Hmm...so far, you're the only one who is convinced of that. I just heard from a well known refacer who told me that he has done this for customers.

Meanwhile, JasonR, the O.P., will continue to suffer with a mouthpiece set up that, IMHO, is simply too resistant for him.

Post Edited (2021-04-20 19:51)

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