BigMartin
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I was a bit surprised not to find a thread on this already, but I'm not too au fait with using search engines, so please redirect me if I missed something.
I just bought a PPT 8* tenor mouthpiece through the yardsale (Thaks, Ads). Only played on it a couple of times yesterday so, not surpisingly, the results haven't been very consistent so far. I think my embouchure needs to adjust to the new shape apart from anything else. This is only the 3rd tenor mouthpiece I've spent any time with in the 4 years I've been learning tenor.
I'm going to have to buy some tenor reeds soon anyway, so I was wondering if any of you PPT owners (or designers?) out there could recommend a good place to start on the reed search.
I've been playing Rico Royal 3's on a Rico Royal (aka Graftonite) B7 mouthpiece. The softer ones of those and a 2.5 I had lying around seem to give me about the right amount of resistance, or do I need to get used to less resistance by going down a strength? As I said, the resuslts have been unpredictable eg low notes sometimes speaking really easily, sometimes not at all, and more squeaks than usual on the top notes. I can easily believe it's just me at this stage, but if I'm barking up the wrong tree reed-wise it would be good to find out before I spend too much time. Do I need to worry about stuff like French cut vs American cut, for example, or are the PPTs forgiving on that sort of thing.
Thanks for any help you folks can give me
Martin
I just bought a PPT 8* tenor mouthpiece through the yardsale (Thaks, Ads). Only played on it a couple of times yesterday so, not surpisingly, the results haven't been very consistent so far. I think my embouchure needs to adjust to the new shape apart from anything else. This is only the 3rd tenor mouthpiece I've spent any time with in the 4 years I've been learning tenor.
I'm going to have to buy some tenor reeds soon anyway, so I was wondering if any of you PPT owners (or designers?) out there could recommend a good place to start on the reed search.
I've been playing Rico Royal 3's on a Rico Royal (aka Graftonite) B7 mouthpiece. The softer ones of those and a 2.5 I had lying around seem to give me about the right amount of resistance, or do I need to get used to less resistance by going down a strength? As I said, the resuslts have been unpredictable eg low notes sometimes speaking really easily, sometimes not at all, and more squeaks than usual on the top notes. I can easily believe it's just me at this stage, but if I'm barking up the wrong tree reed-wise it would be good to find out before I spend too much time. Do I need to worry about stuff like French cut vs American cut, for example, or are the PPTs forgiving on that sort of thing.
Thanks for any help you folks can give me
Martin