Author: Micke Isotalo ★2017
Date: 2019-01-09 23:02
Dorjepismo,
The only advice I can give is to take in more of the Kuckmeier mouthpieces than you may be used to. As I wrote earlier, that was my experience also with my Boehm Solist M. I myself didn't realize this at first, but when I did this one became my mouthpiece to go until I changed to the Austrian facings - which has to be taken in still deeper. When making such an adjustment, also a little bit softer reeds may be needed than what felt suitable with less intake.
With the correct intake I don't find the Solist M to be at all more resistant than say a Vandoren B40. Of the previous five Austrian facings provided by Kuckmeier all but two were way too resistant and also dynamically restricted to me (= too small tip opening), which were the A' and A. The A apparently with a shorter facing didn't have the fullness in sound as the others, so the A' was just right for me.
My first A' I picked from 4 or 5 specimens, which all were surprisingly different - even to the naked eye considering the width of the rails, the shape of the window, etc (considering the marketing talk about computer controlled machinery this was even more suprising). One was even totally unplayable though I couldn't detect any visible flaws on it. Also resistance was different, but happily to me the least resistant one was also the best sounding one. My second A' was custom made with a German bore, but its resistance was equal to the first one - though the sound of the first one is a tad better.
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