Rico has just released their new artist mouthpiece, the Reserve. The Reserve mouthpiece is based upon the old vintage mouthpieces and is milled out of a single billet of material, making it much more consistent (with tolerances of 0.0005) than mouthpieces made using the more traditional injection molding process. It is endorsed by Richie Hawley, Mark Nuccio, and Lee Livengood, all of whom were involved in the design of the mouthpiece. The Reserve is currently available in three different facings, close (1.00mm), medium (1.05mm), and medium open (1.10mm) and is listed on the Rico site at $117, though they are on sale at Kessler Music for $99. I hope to get a chance to try these out soon. It will be interesting too see if Rico can break into the largely Vandoren-dominated mouthpiece market.
Rico Reserve official product page HERE.
Photos all belong to Rico and D'Addario
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