Author: vintschevski
Date: 2021-09-30 02:28
Chris, Vytas Krass offers a model of mouthpiece which, on his website, he used to call Velvet, then for a while called German, and now calls Velvet again. I play a V1 (Velvet, tip opening 1.00) and it's the only mouthpiece I have tried on which it is genuinely easy to play really stiff reeds: anything from Vandoren Traditional 4s to V12 5+. He calls the facing "long", but it's only 18 or 19 mm. So there is something in the "unique interior design" which really makes it play as it does, and I can't say what that is - you could probably spot it immediately, though. I just don't know enough about mouthpiece design, I take a blow it and see approach. But I know what hard work I can find it to play 3 strength reeds on a lot of the currently popular mouthpieces, whereas the stiffer reeds are a doddle on the Krass V1. So it doesn't seem to be a German style mouthpiece in the sense that Paul is using, nor is it like the Gleichweits which have really long facings, but quite wide tip-openings. It's no surprise that the tip-opening and facing alone can't explain how a mouthpiece plays.
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