Author: dorjepismo ★2017
Date: 2017-09-24 19:30
The better mouthpiece makers, including Walter, do things with the mouthpieces to counteract the potential downsides of different facings. You can have a closed facing with a big sound or an open facing with a centered sound, but you might have to do some traveling and try out a lot of mouthpieces. As far as closed mouthpieces are concerned, Americans are rank amateurs compared with Austrians, but they have reeds that work with the facings, and the bores of their instruments are a lot wider. It's not only a matter of harder reeds with closed facings, but also the relative thickness of the tip, heart and back, the width, and the length of the vamp.
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