Fantastic Mouthpiece!
587630
I bought this mouthpiece on a whim.  It is worth every penny!  I was praised in a review of my orchestra right after switching to the Black Diamond.  This is my "Goldie Locks" mouthpiece.  The sound is just right- nice proportions of focus, color, and projection.  Articulation is easy and the registers are even and consistent.  BD5 takes takes soft reeds.
1337310
I have a similar Rovner for my clarinet and love it so I bought this when I started playing tenor sax as well and it's great.  Not only does it help with a warmer sound (more noticeable on clarinet than sax, though), the rubber also grips the mouthpiece better than metal so neither it nor your reed will slip.  A teacher of mine who's a high-level saxophonist also recommended this ligature in particular.  I have to return my rental sax for a while for money issues but am still glad I invested in the mouthpiece for the next time I rent (or work toward buying).
3080751
Have owned this product for years and have enjoyed it all the way.  The instrument sounds amazing and the tone just gives one joy when played!  Sounds great plugged in or acoustic.  Tuning to different scales or pitch patterns is really easy to do, and having a chromatic tuner makes it a quick process.
It's small enough to go anywhere, and being an acoustic instrument, you don't need anything else to make joyful music on the go.  Best part is being able to plug it into an amp via the 1/4 inch jack for entertaining friends (or an audience), or into a recording device for recording purposes.
The design is really sleek and simple, but sturdy and functional.  It's not awkward to hold in the hands at all.  Solid wood/metal construction feels durable, yet it's very lightweight so doesn't tire the hands, wrists, or forearms when playing for extended periods.
This is an instrument that can be enjoyed by anyone, even non-musicians, because it is really easy to learn how to play and sound good on!  Thanks to the internet, there are tons of resources for teaching yourself how to play this instrument.  Hard to beat it!
487816
Very nice mouthpiece for the price. I had it described to me by a co-worker as a sleeper. I am not a professional so cannot go into detail over all aspects of mouthpiece properties but I know it plays and feels better than the el cheepo that came with my Chinese horn. I also know it plays better than my Meyer - but that mouthpiece is over 35 years old and probably needs re-facing. Not unhappy at all with this purchase.
3578348
The Phaeton 2030 is a great sounding trumpet. It has a beautiful tone and the valves and slides work very smoothly. In my opinion, the craftsmanship is top notch. You cannot go wrong buying this trumpet!
2840703
I am so totally in love with this! Easy to play once you figure out the embouchure differences from other reed instruments. Absolutely love the sound. It is not a thin sound like a recorder, but a very full sound that is both saxy and clarinetty. If you are considering it, I'd recommend jumping in and doing it. Just make sure to get the Maui brand; it is the original and best. Love the fact that it is light weight, portable, and very sturdy. It is a lot of fun to take along places to play, and not to have to worry about damage to your instrument. (i.e. sand in your pads, or the weather being to hot or cold for your wood clarinet) This is easily my favorite purchase in a long time. I watched a review video by Jeremy Katz music prior to purchase, if you haven't heard the sound of one of these that is a great place to start.
4283887
I didn't know how this little unit would sound, with a simple circuit consisting of a 12AX7 preamp tube and an EL84 power tube. I am picky when it comes to tubes, so first thing before even turning this amp on, I replaced the tubes with vintage Mullards (not the Russian crap!).  Tubes take about 20 hours to break in and sound their best, and I had no interest in putting that many hours on the stock Sovtek tubes, which are not crap but certainly towards the bottom of the barrel as tubes for "tone". Do this!  It is cheap, you don't need to buy matched pairs or anything.  Just get a vintage Mullard 12AX7 and a vintage Mullard EL84 on Ebay, should run you about $20 for each tube.

I was blown away immediately!  Has all of the Vox "chime" of the bigger Vox units when playing it clean.  Maybe even more chime!  Simply beautiful.  Even better yet, is the crunch from this little guy!  No pedals, playing straight in, you can start to get some overdrive at about the 12:00 position on the volume control. Really sweet classic rock tone, with great sensitivity to touch as you play.  Responds really well to pedals, though!  The vintage Mullards are buttery smooth and sound just gorgeous when overdriven.  Swirling harmonics, touch sensitive break-up, smooth as glass vintage classic rock overdrive! This amp would sound really sweet in a live gig, but it would need to be microphoned in with the PA system.  Amp is heavy and well-built, truly impressive for a $200 practice amp!!!
If there is any chance of this amp being discontinued, I will buy a second one to have on hand.  Get this little guy, you will not regret it!
1143019
Excellent mouthpiece I upgraded from a blessing 12c to this and already my lower range sounds way more rich and every note sounds much stronger. Good mouthpiece for intermediate players. Next step from here would be a 4 or 5G bach.
4649099
One of the best, if not THE BEST penny whistle (tin whistle) I have owned!! I have a PVC Becker Whistle ($10) and also a Feadog in Brass D ($12). I always reach for my Clarke Sweetone first. This whistle is the most balanced one I've played... you can hit all the notes easily without squeaking after a couple hours of practice. I have ordered five of these and plan to order some more... enough said!!
1850675
Upgraded from a Bonade Debut. Night and day difference. This mouthpiece is far more playable and allows a huge range in volume by comparison. Very clear, consistent tone. Kind of dark. Just how I like it. It sounds great.
1762011
There are so many ligatures to choose from out there so when I went to change from the basic H ligature to a step up ligature, my head was spinning!!
Since I have a Vandoren Mouthpiece that I had bought 30 something years ago, I decided on the Vandoren ligature and I'm very glad that I did.
The ligature comes with 3 different plates to choose from for different playing venues. They fit behind and click onto the screw bar. You remove and put the plates on by pressing the area on the plate that goes on the screw bar and turn the screw and it will go on. When removing, just add a bit of pressure on the plate while you are turning the screw and it will pop out.
I feel that this ligature really lets the sound come out where I feel the basic H ligature stymied my sound a bit.
You can tell the different sounds with the different ligatures. One would be good for marching band, One for say concert/symphonic band and maybe one for a more jazzy type sound.
All the notes on my clarinet sound great with this ligature.
The only thing I've found that takes a little getting used to is if I don't place that ligature in a certain spot on the reed/mouthpiece, it really stops the sound. I call it the sweet spot (!) and now know where to place it for the best sound from my clarinet and reed.
I've had this ligature for over a year and couldn't be happier with it. I've also noticed that though there are quite a few players in my band playing with the cloth looking type ligatures, more of these Vandoren's are starting to show up.
71291
Daughter had a chance to try out several mouthpieces on loan from the school while waiting for her rental tuba to be ready. When it came in, I asked her which was her favorite, and it was this one by a long shot, which is nice because it's about $40 cheaper than the helleberg, and got strong reviews here from more seasoned musicians.

Fast Shipping - I ordered it the day her tuba came home, telling her it may be up to a week and a half before it would come in according to the shipping information. That was a Wednesday. It arrived on Saturday.

Product - Daughter has been using it for a week and loves it. The product is exactly as the one she'd tried out, and she's had only good things to say. She's been playing tuba for about 3 months, and I've never played a brass instrument, so this is an amateur's assessment, but for all we can tell it's an excellent investment.
229037
This mouthpiece is excellent.  Outstanding tone quality and responsiveness.  The price was good, comparitively speaking as the US vendor price was twice that of Oriduru, though I believe that mouthpiece prices are quite inflated for the so-called premium brands, especially when most of the work is done by digital machines.
1585257
It is a top quality build, is gorgeous, and has great intonation at the octave and all frets in between.  Also, it is a joy to hold.

I restrung it with strings 2,3 and 4 of an EJ46 Classical string set so that I can tune it the same as my baritone (r/e required using 2 of the number 2 strings).  This required a tiny bit of widening at the nut for the number 2 and 4 string positions so they could slide properly when tuning. The other strings all fit just fine. Wow! It sings nicely at that lower (DGBE) r/e tuning.

Compared to my similarly-priced Luna Vintage Mahogany soprano, strung and tuned the same, the sound is a noticeably "rounder sounding",  yet keeps its "pluckyness". It's a keeper - actually, they both are.

It came with a thin (non-padded) Luna gig bag and a standard (GCEA) pitch-pipe tuner.

Thanks again Luna for producing affordable instruments that make learning enjoyable!
3159702
Great looking melodica.  The one that I got plays very well in tune throughout the registers, and blends nicely with other instruments.  Definitely a top notch quality built instrument.  Only issue for me is the mouthpiece.  Quite squeaky and can be stubborn to work with.  I bought one of those flexible tube mouthpieces, that although is a loose fit for this melodica, still works better for my needs compared to the mouthpiece that comes with it.  Others may feel differently and like it though.
4379674
Nice mouthpiece,  used to replace the small one on my sheerwood sr2.  Recommend
828123
This mouthpiece is excellent compared to the stock mouthpiece I got with my saxophone. I got a crappy $250 sax off ebay, and this mouthpiece turned it into a $1500 sounding sax, coupled with the vandoren reeds.