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Re: ESM MCK1 mouthpiece

Author: leolollo
Date: 2020-11-05 14:04

This is a wonderful thread.
I am a student in the Italian Conservatory.
I am currently playing with the Vandoren M15, but I am not very happy with this mouthpiece. In particular, I often find it difficult to find the right reeds for this mouthpiece.
I can play easily with this piece:
Vandoren Blue 3
Legere euro cut 3.75 (but my teacher doesn't like synthetic)

With Vandoren V12 3.5 (or 3.5+) I have a too muffled and not very versatile sound ... Same problem with Rico / D'addario Reserve Classic (3.5+ / 4)

Maybe I don't get along with the too long facing of the M15 ...
From the descriptions of MCK1 on this forum I got the idea that the ESM is a very reed friendly mouthpiece, and more flexible than Vandoren's "M" series mouthpieces.

In the past I had an ESM MA3 (an open mouthpiece, which I used for the klezmer), and I have very good memories of it.
An interesting fact is that in Europe ESM mouthpieces are quite cheap (95usd for one piece).

I would like to hear opinions of anyone who compared MCK1 vs VD M15

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