Author: EBC
Date: 2013-01-27 00:26
Just to revive this thread (because I feel like more people should know about these mouthpieces): I just tested a sample of 6 "French" PlayEasy mouthpieces. After (very little, in fact) agonizing debate, I chose one of the two B2 models I had been sent. This is a very worthy mouthpiece, providing an incredibly rich tone colour, vibrant staccato, reed flexibility and a general ease of sound production that I have never found before. Intonation is no better than on any of my other regularly-played mouthpieces (Vandoren M13lyre and Rico Reserve X0), but no worse either. The only potential drawback is the almost invariably warm and rich tone colour (it takes effort to produce the kind of big, pure sound that soars over an orchestra). Still, especially for classical and early romantic repertoire, this mouthpiece delivers.
(It should be noted that each mouthpiece was very different from the next, and, for me, only one of the other 5 could compare. Consistency wouldn't seem (from my very limited experience) to be a strong point, but they are, after all, hand-finished mouthpieces.)
Eric
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