Author: dorjepismo ★2017
Date: 2019-01-02 21:26
Paul, don't know the answer to your questions about 34+ mm facings, but having played 1010 mouthpieces by Pillinger and Eaton for a few years and being in the middle of switching back to a French bore, I'm finding that the Fobes Europas, with a 19 mm facing (the English mouthpieces advertise 21 mm facings, but for me, measure about the same lengths as the Europas), are a lot more comfortable for me than more common lengths for American mouthpieces, so I think that French bore Boehm acoustics can work with a more European facing length.
As you note, the Vienna mouthpiece has important differences from typical German ones. I don't know how typical the feel of Playnick mouthpieces are of the Viennese preferences, but Nick himself seems to think they can produce an Austrian type sound, and they're awfully restrictive - more so than German mouthpieces (for German-system instruments) I've tried. Others will know a lot more about this than I, but from descriptions of the Viennese style from Nick and Otto Kronthaler, I get the idea that it isn't necessarily the "effortlessness" sometimes attributed to the German setup, though it probably does involve taking more of the mouthpiece into the mouth.
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