Author: james
Date: 2002-03-21 15:13
If you are a GOOD high school player, then yes a moutpiece is important. It is the the most complicated part of the clarinet and not to mention to most critical. One who plays on a crappy clarinet with a good mouthpiece is more likely sound better than a person on a great clarinet with a crappy mouthpiece.
They make all the different. When I got my hawkins mouthpiece, just like Carmen, my playing changed a lot, i had a lot more freedom, reeds worked better and my sound was better. If you are a parent shoping for your kids mouthpiece, forget it, just give the student one becuase if someone who is in high school isn't independant enough to go out and get their mouthpiece then it really doesn't matter. Also why are we talking about how expensive the mouthpiece is? What is expensive? 70 dollars or the 450 some pay to get a chedville? No one should go out looking for mouthpieces to get the most expensive one or in an immediate price range (ie. I want a 200 dollar mouthpiece, and the richard hawkins is only a 100, that must mean its not good enough) To be honest that strikes me as so stupid it makes me laugh. In the top line mouthpieces they are all extreamly high quality, the real only thing varies is the price. I know people that uses smith's upper priced mouthpieces, but i know for a fact at eastman john manassee and his students (for the most part) use the Vandoran M15 which is only a fraction of the cost of the smith. So would a high school student benifit from an expensive mouthpiece? Maybe... Would a good high school student benifit from a good mouthpiece, of course
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