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 Re: close-tipped mouthpiece recommendations
Author: Max S-D 
Date:   2022-09-19 00:17

I've had great experiences with both Clark Fobes and Brad Behn. Both are absolute masters of their craft and are excellent players with strong mouthpiece design philosophies informed by their own playing. Interestingly, both seem to prefer a tone with brilliance and color and not the darkest possible tone, as some other makers pursue.

I have a CF facing from Clark and a close tip Sono from Brad.

I find that Clark's mouthpieces tend to have less resistance built into the mouthpiece, requiring a slightly harder reed than Brad's mouthpieces in a comparable tip. To me, my Fobes mouthpieces have a feeling of less back pressure and more embouchure work and my Behn has the inverse. More back pressure and less embouchure.

I've preferred each at various times but have gravitated more towards the Behn in the last couple of years.

To me, both have an astonishing feeling of efficiency in how they turn air into sound compared to a Vandoren or D'Addario mouthpiece. Both hold together at the softest whisper and the loudest fortissimo in ways that the Vandoren mouthpieces I've played don't. For me, of course.

I'd highly recommend both, but I'm guessing you'll have a strong preference for one over the other, given their somewhat opposite ways of accomplishing similar goals.
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