Mat
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An old thread I understand. If I am breaking some horrible social rule here, just let me know. However, I am not sure how it turned out so thought I would throw in my thoughts.
I had a lot of issues getting into soprano. My answer was to head back to a bog standard Yani 4 mouthpiece with a 2.5 reed. I found that the easiest way to get it all under control, a simple closed mouthpiece, let me just focus on getting air going through the horn, which then got the confidence up, which then let me relax, which then got everything starting to sound better. I started with a bigger mouthpiece, and every nuance was bigger, which was just compounding the problem.
I have a Tai Shan curved soprano as a safe travel soprano, which actually sounds ok now I got my confidence up. If I can get that going well, the Yani will be fine! I found that initially with the confidence gone, everything went to pieces. My only other thought is don't be afraid to take a reasonable amount of mouthpiece in, and yep, blow strongly. Just because it's little doesn't mean it doesn't need air. And I repeat.... relax. Tensing up because it's frustrating actually just makes it worse.
Once you have everything going together, then yes, bigger mouthpiece can start to make sense.
Obviously just my experience. Doesn't make it right, Just adding to the picture.
I had a lot of issues getting into soprano. My answer was to head back to a bog standard Yani 4 mouthpiece with a 2.5 reed. I found that the easiest way to get it all under control, a simple closed mouthpiece, let me just focus on getting air going through the horn, which then got the confidence up, which then let me relax, which then got everything starting to sound better. I started with a bigger mouthpiece, and every nuance was bigger, which was just compounding the problem.
I have a Tai Shan curved soprano as a safe travel soprano, which actually sounds ok now I got my confidence up. If I can get that going well, the Yani will be fine! I found that initially with the confidence gone, everything went to pieces. My only other thought is don't be afraid to take a reasonable amount of mouthpiece in, and yep, blow strongly. Just because it's little doesn't mean it doesn't need air. And I repeat.... relax. Tensing up because it's frustrating actually just makes it worse.
Once you have everything going together, then yes, bigger mouthpiece can start to make sense.
Obviously just my experience. Doesn't make it right, Just adding to the picture.