I agree the demo is pretty poor (mascio is being too humble, I bet he sounds better than this guy).
But how do you know this player would sound any better on a different mpc; what makes you think it's the mpc?
p.s. Just read your last post above and yes, those would all be signs of a poorly-designed mpc, but they are also the signs of a poorly-developed player (or a typical beginner, still trying to get his sound together). How do you know which it is?
you and i both know that the best player will sound dreadfully average if asked to play with a bad mouthpiece and bad reed. the horn could be a student horn and it would not make that much difference. but a bad mp & bad reed. well that's another story. and that's why we give our students easy playable setups. so they can develop there tech. correctly. how do i know? well it could be both sure. my point is to have information out there so that people thinking of buying one of Mr Jary MP's from ebay or where ever can easily find out and research what they could be getting them selves into. ive been poorly let down buy my dealings with Jary. i hope know one else does.
HERE IS ANOTHER BAD STORY ABOUT JARY CUSTOM MOUTHPIECES BY OUR GOOD FRIEND JAZZZZNBLUEZZZZ POSTED 24 HOUR AGO
Re: Let's Be honest Here..wasn't as great as I thought
OMM, thanks for clarifying. I agree Ebay can be a pain sometimes.
I have experience with dealing with Mr. Jary directly and had good experiences close to 10 years ago when I
bought a refaced Woodwind Steel Ebonte tenor mouthiece from him through his website. It is still a killer player for me.
About 4 years ago I decided to send him two stuffy playing metal Links on which he did an equally great job. The plating
job he did was a real disaster though. More than 60% has worn of. In fact it already started to come of the first week I got them.
Anyway they both play very good. I don't care much for the looks but do care most about the sound so I decided to leave it at that.
Over a years ago year I had the need for a backup for the tenor Woodwind since it had made several nose dives
and while still playing decent I imagined the risk of fatal damage and loosing one of my favorites. Mr. Jary gave the impression he remembered
exactly what mouthpiece I had purchased from him back then and he would make an exact replica. After about 6 months I received
a ... modified vintage Vito ALTO (!) mouthpiece. The minute after unpacking I sent him a mail stating he must have made a mistake
by sending me the wrong mouthpiece as I had ordered a tenor mouthpiece. In the next replies Mr. Jary tried to convince me
in very strong words I was all wrong and that I should not question his professionalism and that this was undisputedly a tenor mouthpiece.
Well, I am not a mouthpiece guru but I was not born yesterday either. I happened to have several alto mouthpieces and the Vito was even
smaller than these. I did try to play it though on my tenors and I must admit it really had a great singing tone. However it played way out of tune and
there was no way I could get it right. I then made clear to him that I was not happy at all and that it was totally unuseable for me and that I
wanted to return it and demanded a refund. Realize that for communicating through email with Mr. Jary you have to be a real Houdini
and follow a course of Anger Management. Or a few stiff drinks. So after an intensive stressful energy absorbing email conversation ( I got a
lecture that the #3 reeds I used were way to thick and I would play out of tune with these anyway ?!) Mr. Jary eventually agreed he would make
a new mouthpiece instead of a refund.
And yes, he actually did! After keeping sending him friendly emails to keep the contact and conversation going and not hurt his ego for almost another 6 months
I finally received a... TENOR mouthpiece. Wow!
Unfortunatly it is totally different from the large chambered Woodwind. It has a thinner body had a narrower ML chamber design. And unfortunatly I was not
able to get one decent note out of it... Very frustrated I gave up and accepted my loss. I decided to send it to Kai Siebold, a reputed german mouthpiece
designer and refacer. After he examined the mouthpiece he sent me an email adressing several issues a bad mouthpiece can have.
Mr Siebold managed to turn it in a great dark player like it should have been in the first place. Still very different to the Woodwind but alas. I have learned my lesson.
Long story short. I don't know what went wrong with Mr. Jary in the last couple of years. But as it stands now I am inclined to think
that his heydays are way behind him.
So to get back to the topic: Yes it wasn't as great as I thought.
