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Re: Forestone Premium

Author: Barry Vincent
Date: 2014-05-22 05:00

Kdk. "That's because the mouthpiece for which each strength of a synthetic's range is designed is not necessarily (or likely) the mouthpiece a given user plays on".

*The player will therefore have to adapt to the ideal mouthpiece that suits each resistant grade of Forestone reed.
I can only speak for myself but here are the results of my own 'trying out' of the various grades of this synthetic. All my mouthpieces are Vandorans except for one of Tom Ridenour's. (Eroica)
M13 F4.5 / 5
M13 Lyra F4.5 / 5 * as well as the above MP, if the 5 resistant grade is used I must lower the tip of the reed slightly to lessen the resistance.
B40 Lyra F3 / F3.5 / (F4)
B45 dot F3,5 / (F4)
B45 F3.5 / F4 / (F4.5)
Eroica F4 / F4.5

If you have some type of pet mouthpiece that you have spent a fortune on
I'd imagine the procedure would be the same. Match the reed to the MP. Or just do like I have done , and use a common MP and try out the various resistance grades.
Other than vary the resistance slightly by lower or raising the reed tip a smidgin (as suggested by Forestone) I have also clipped off a very small amount off the tip of a Forestone that has gone 'tired'. We're talking a fraction of a mm here. And you apparently can only do this once. "Tired' as in the reed tip has gone weak with extensive use.
However these synthetics take a long time to get 'tired'. So I have contradicted myself here in saying that one should not try and alter a Forestone reed so I"ll have to rephrase my comment.
Don't try and alter or modify a NEW Forestone reed. They work just fine as is.

BJV
"The Kazoo is not a horn"

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