D’Addario Woodwinds’ limited-edition Reserve Evolution Marble Mouthpieces are designed for the modern clarinetist, delivering a warm and refined tone featuring quick response and ease of articulation. This new mouthpiece provides clarinetists with greater flexibility for a wide variety of musical styles.
The marble mouthpiece features an exclusive marble formula and medium-long facing providing greater tonal flexibility, precision milling for consistency, upholding the strictest design features and tolerances, and altered baffle for added projection and articulation nuance.
Kaplan, D’Addario’s line of premium orchestral strings, is expanding the Amo & Vivo sets
for Violin & Viola to include both full and fractional sizes. Kaplan Amo brings warmth, richness, and flexibility for brighter instruments, while Kaplan Vivo brings brilliance, clarity and a robust feel for darker instruments. Violin strings will be available in medium tension in both full and fractional sizes, as well as light and heavy for full size only. Sizes include sets and single packaging for 4/4, 3/4, 1/2, and 1/4 instruments.
Viola strings will be available in short-scale (14”-15”), medium-scale (15”-16”), and long scale (16+”) in both sets and single packaging. Long scale sets will continue to be available in medium and heavy tension, while medium and short scales will be available in medium tension only.
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