Author: dorjepismo ★2017
Date: 2017-04-21 03:03
The reed and mouthpiece have to be appropriate for one another, and it's hard to hear what a mouthpiece is going to sound like with an appropriate reed if all you have to try it with are inappropriate ones. I've shot myself in the foot numerous times by being too rigid about the kind of mouthpiece, and especially facing, I "like," which caused the people not to show me styles that might have been really great. It's good to listen to the hints and recommendations these people might be kind enough to give you, and be as prepared as possible to go with the flow. It's possible to get a really great sound with no. 3 reeds, and some mouthpieces will knock your socks off, but only with a 4 1/2 reed. Stuff's an art, not a science.
Some friends and I at one point got into this thing about "breaking in" reeds by holding the tip on the mouthpiece table and flipping the back of the reed back and forth with our index fingers. I kid you not. If you have a box of a given strength, at least a few will probably play well enough for long enough to try out a few mouthpieces without doing anything to them first, which will probably give you a better idea of what the mouthpieces are like.
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