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Re: Looking for less resistant mouthpiece

Author: pukalo
Date: 2023-04-15 23:44

I'm looking for the same playing characteristics as a B45, just with less resistance, which is why the B45 "dot" was my first go-to. I tend to stray towards Vandoren just because their system is the one I am most familiar with, but I am open to all mouthpiece brands as long as they aren't super expensive (like 250$ CAD is probably the most I'm willing to spend for a B-flat mouthpiece).

A 3.5 rue lepic curiously plays fine on a B45 for me (3.5+ is too hard), but a strength 3 blue box is too hard on the same mouthpiece (fuzzy, airy sound). If I use blue box on a B45 the 2.5 strength is what works. Might be due to how the reeds are cut differently that the strengths don't line up.

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