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 Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 11:00 pm
ShugoCharaFreak427 My mouthpiece is for horn. I believe it is a Holton Farkas MDC. I'm not sure if I spelled that right. I have that model too! except mine is just a DC instead of MDC. I also have a blue plastic one for pep band (its a piece of crap lol) school spirit!! Luckily I only have to break it out for games, and I'm so distracted by me hating my mellophone I barely notice how crummy it is (until I tried it on my horn lol)
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Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 11:03 pm
cIochach Treyo No.. As I said before, it would be my ideal mouthpiece if it was an excellent one. I'd be fine with a regular one if I found it to be good. If I liked it for the color then I'd just go into any shop and pick up the first one that I found that was a gold color.. then you shouldn't revolve aroung "gold" mouth peices it all depends on you you can sound good on a mouth peice that isn't gold and bad on a gold one. just cause it's gold plated doesn't mean it's good my mom's mouth piece for her horn is gold plated, and she let me try it. It makes the mouth piece in my opinion a lot slipperier (don't like it lol), but hey whatever works best for the player is the best thing to do.
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Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 11:04 pm
MoonGodessofLove i have a question.. i am not new to the whole band and music thing.. but how do you know the name of your mouth piece? usually it has a brand name on the mouth piece. if yours is old it could have rubbed away, or if it just came with your instrument, it might be the same brand as your instrument. if you ever take your instrument in for repairs, or go and buy a new mouth piece the person who works there might know what kind you have
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Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 7:48 pm
I just use the standard 6 1/2 AL Bach. I've tried others, but they didn't seem to be worth the investment. 'Bone players have any suggestions?
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Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 11:03 am
I use a king12C for my trombone
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Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 2:06 pm
Clarinet-wise I have an M-15, an M-13, and M-30. Sax-wise I have a 7 facing NY JAzz Select by Lomax for my alto and stock yanagisawa hard rubber for my tenor (poor baby).
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Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 2:12 pm
pezhi on my clarinet surprised i use a Vandoren B45 biggrin i love it, my band teacher made all the clarinets use the mouthpiece..but i bought mine biggrin so i get to keep it. on my sax i use a a Vandoren V5(a45) i use a Vandoren Optimum ligature :O this is my baby...o,.,o it costed lots of money.. i love both of these mouthpieces biggrin they're awesome (for sax i also have a Berg Larson 90/2 and a Claude Lakey Jazz 6*3) B45 is a decent mouth piece for the intermediate student. Later on you'll figure out whether you want a brighter or darker sound, or have great breath support and want thicker reeds (you need a more closed tip mouthpiece for that... I play on 5s usually). That sounds like a very classical set up for saxophone... usually jazz oriented people start off with a Selmer C* adn venture either into metal or NY style jazz mouthpieces. I haven't tried out too many of the vandoren sax mouthpieces myself, but I have an optimum ligature for my clarinet. I always use the 3 vertical lines for classical. If you're using anything other than the 4 dots plate on sax, you're not allowing the reed to vibrate as freely and will have a darker, muddier tone. I just got a H style ligature that only touches at 4 points, as opposed to my Olegature that wrapped the mouthpiece in metal mesh.
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Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 8:04 pm
Chocovash3 B45 is a decent mouth piece for the intermediate student. Later on you'll figure out whether you want a brighter or darker sound, or have great breath support and want thicker reeds (you need a more closed tip mouthpiece for that... I play on 5s usually). That sounds like a very classical set up for saxophone... usually jazz oriented people start off with a Selmer C* adn venture either into metal or NY style jazz mouthpieces. I haven't tried out too many of the vandoren sax mouthpieces myself, but I have an optimum ligature for my clarinet. I always use the 3 vertical lines for classical. If you're using anything other than the 4 dots plate on sax, you're not allowing the reed to vibrate as freely and will have a darker, muddier tone. I just got a H style ligature that only touches at 4 points, as opposed to my Olegature that wrapped the mouthpiece in metal mesh. yeah, the B45, like i said, was suggested from my band director(who actually encourages all the clarinetists in our band to use them[not because he likes them best, but because he got a big shipment of them and can lend them out] i just figured i'd buy it since it was half price of what it normally would have been). i'm sure i will find a different set up for clarinet eventually, but this mouthpiece is working out great for me...considering i am still in highschool. The sax mouthpiece is a more classical set up, even though the mouthpiece is technically marketed as jazz. I bought it with the hopes of darkening the annoyingly bright sound of my Bundy II..which it did, and that made me happy...xD since i made this thread, i've actually bought a new sax...a yamaha 52(it was really the only sax i could afford at the time other than the cannonball, but that particular sax was pretty airy). since i got the new sax i've mainly used the Claude lakey. I typically use 2 1/2 size reeds(because all of my mouthpieces have pretty big tip openings...none lower than 0.90.) and they work out alright. I could be using thicker reeds, but in my experience they just don't work for me as well as the thinner ones.
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Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 8:21 pm
i dont know what kind mine are
i just know that mine suck lol
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Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2009 1:22 am
pezhi Chocovash3 B45 is a decent mouth piece for the intermediate student. Later on you'll figure out whether you want a brighter or darker sound, or have great breath support and want thicker reeds (you need a more closed tip mouthpiece for that... I play on 5s usually). That sounds like a very classical set up for saxophone... usually jazz oriented people start off with a Selmer C* adn venture either into metal or NY style jazz mouthpieces. I haven't tried out too many of the vandoren sax mouthpieces myself, but I have an optimum ligature for my clarinet. I always use the 3 vertical lines for classical. If you're using anything other than the 4 dots plate on sax, you're not allowing the reed to vibrate as freely and will have a darker, muddier tone. I just got a H style ligature that only touches at 4 points, as opposed to my Olegature that wrapped the mouthpiece in metal mesh. yeah, the B45, like i said, was suggested from my band director(who actually encourages all the clarinetists in our band to use them[not because he likes them best, but because he got a big shipment of them and can lend them out] i just figured i'd buy it since it was half price of what it normally would have been). i'm sure i will find a different set up for clarinet eventually, but this mouthpiece is working out great for me...considering i am still in highschool. The sax mouthpiece is a more classical set up, even though the mouthpiece is technically marketed as jazz. I bought it with the hopes of darkening the annoyingly bright sound of my Bundy II..which it did, and that made me happy...xD since i made this thread, i've actually bought a new sax...a yamaha 52(it was really the only sax i could afford at the time other than the cannonball, but that particular sax was pretty airy). since i got the new sax i've mainly used the Claude lakey. I typically use 2 1/2 size reeds(because all of my mouthpieces have pretty big tip openings...none lower than 0.90.) and they work out alright. I could be using thicker reeds, but in my experience they just don't work for me as well as the thinner ones. Yeah, also look at the facing of the mouthpiece. i saw yours was a 6*, which is a little shorter than my 7 (I use 3-3.5 reeds when I'm buying cane). I play on a Yamaha 875, same as my mentor, and it's still in great condition. I know what you mean about the brightness... my tenor is a yanagisawa, which has slightly thinner metalwork to allow for better projection, but it also makes it ridiculously bright xD Stick to your hard rubber, but keep in mind that the ligature has a huge impact on the color of tone as well. The more binding or surface area that is pressed on the reed, the darker and more muddy the tone. The less pressure applied, the brighter. The position of the ligature also can slightly impact pitch and further influence your tone. When you do look to upgrade, check out the M series. Don't be lured into buying fancy barrels or bells (they run about $300 or so) until later in college, because the amount of tone they affect doesn't really matter at your level. I still don't buy that crap xD
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Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2009 7:32 am
Chocovash3 Yeah, also look at the facing of the mouthpiece. i saw yours was a 6*, which is a little shorter than my 7 (I use 3-3.5 reeds when I'm buying cane). I play on a Yamaha 875, same as my mentor, and it's still in great condition. I know what you mean about the brightness... my tenor is a yanagisawa, which has slightly thinner metalwork to allow for better projection, but it also makes it ridiculously bright xD Stick to your hard rubber, but keep in mind that the ligature has a huge impact on the color of tone as well. The more binding or surface area that is pressed on the reed, the darker and more muddy the tone. The less pressure applied, the brighter. The position of the ligature also can slightly impact pitch and further influence your tone. When you do look to upgrade, check out the M series. Don't be lured into buying fancy barrels or bells (they run about $300 or so) until later in college, because the amount of tone they affect doesn't really matter at your level. I still don't buy that crap xD yeah...to be honest i always thought "fancy bells and barrels" look ridiculous xD. mostly because a lot of them are a completely different color than the typical black clarinet..and with the clarinet especially i think it looks better when it's all nice and uniform smile .
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Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 9:42 am
tuba mouth piece. i like it. it helps me play my insrument
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Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 8:34 pm
I use a Schilke 51D on my tenor trombone. It's amazing. And I just started Bass this summer, and I bought a Schilke 60, which is gonna take a long time to get used to.
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Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:31 pm
ok my turn to name my mouthpieces
i have 3 mouthpieces for trumpet
first is really just if i lose one or really dont want to play its a stock 3C and its not that great
My second one is my marching band mouthpiece
it is a king 3C which through experience is much better to me than my stock
And last is my baby pride and joy concert mouthpiece
my 11B4
that mouthpiece is just for concert season and never anywhere else
i also played on one of my friends ....what was it i think it was a 24A2 and that thing can wail but you dont want to play on that to much cause it hurts after not to long
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Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2009 5:50 pm
I play clarinet. Mine is a Vandoren M13.
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