Nice strong tone and very quick response.

I was looking for a mouthpiece that would be easy to play with Legere European Cut (Bb clarinet). Very easy to play even in altissimo register. Legere European 3.5 seems to be a good match for me with Vocalise R (closed/short facing).

I have been playing on the same clarinet and mouthpiece since 1968 when I got my Buffet R13 and Kaspar 13 mouthpiece from my teacher the late Robert Marcellus. Both have served me well during my professional orchestral career and afterward. Two years ago I had Kessler refurbish my clarinet and I decided to try something new for a mouthpiece. I bought a D'Addario Reserve Evolution. It was more free blowing than my Kaspar and had a nice center tone but at the same time I could not get the volume or control I wanted to go from pp to ff. I went back to my Kaspar. As clarinetist we all are looking for something to achieve better sound, clarity, articulation...everything in a mouthpiece. I read about the Backun Vocalise CG synthetic crystal mouthpiece. I listed to Giufreddi recordings and watched his videos and he definitely has something and he was playing a Backun mouthpiece. I only use Legere reeds now, I don't really want to bother fixing reeds and I am getting good results. I purchase Vocalise CG and immediately noticed a marked difference. I got a more free blowing mouthpiece that anything I ever owned and better tone quality, sound generation, control, intonation, articulation and so on. Much better over my coveted Kaspar. I love it. I can honestly say that Marcellus would have loved this mouthpiece as well. I also play on a Selmer Paris model 33 bass clarinet. I'm currently using a Vandoren BD5 but now I am going to order a Vocalise CG for the bass clarinet. This is an exciting time for clarinetists because of the technological innovations Backun is engineering. It is also very creative.

How sweet it is!!!! This mouthpiece sounds so beautiful, it improved my intonation and my articulation sounds clean and crisp. The notes come out so easily now. I could not be happier. Thank you Backun!

I bought the H model and it played just as expected. It's much louder but it doesn't give me a bad sound and you can barely hear me bridging octaves with this on. Absolutely perfect.

The G model really impressed me with the tuning and how easy the articulation works. For me where the mouthpiece really shines in the upper and altissimo register. The notes have hold and there is no spread, really beautiful. My strength of reeds have been 3 and sometimes 3.5 with the V12 and blue box. No issues at all with reeds for me. I may be picking up another one for a backup in the near future.