| I tend to not switch equipment very much because I don't think that you can develop any real consistency when you are constantly switching your equipment. I use one horn and two mouthpieces for the playing that I do. I have one mouthpiece that I use for legit and one that I use for when I'm playing in the big band and rock band. I did switch to a Holbert piece about 6 months ago (from a Schilke 14A4a) but other than that, I have used the same two mouthpieces for nearly 6 years. Prior to that, I used one mouthpiece for everything and one of my two current pieces I've been using since 1990.
I've been on a couple of mouthpiece safaris, but it seems that I almost always wind up back where I started, so I usually will look at mouthpieces, talk about them, but when it comes to actually using something else, I usually just stick with what I've got and what has been working for me in the past.
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