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I just bought a Durga 4 metal 8* and had saved up for a year to get it so was super excited for it to arrive not having “clicked with any of my other mouthpieces yet.
It was bit of an adjustment to an 8 from the David Zagar Cool School I’d been playing on but I definitely prefer a smaller mouthpiece after finding the Jody Jazz HR always seeming “flat” and just too big in my mouth. (I have residual effects of Bell’s Palsy that affected the use of some of my facial muscles) so I thought I’d see if it worked better moving the ligature forward one notch. Took out the trusty included hex screwdriver and loosened the screws and that’s when it all went badly!
the ligature just would not fit back on the mouthpiece at all!! I unscrewed the screws all the way, and tried several times to re-attach the ligature to another position without success. I ended up going back to the middle position it had come in, screwed the screws in but it appears to have somehow stretched the width of the ligature so now it just falls right off!
I am beyond belief disappointed, especially as it cost me way more than I could really justify but I’d heard they were the bees knees. Now, after just one day, I have a ligature that doesn’t work and a long dreamed of mouthpiece I can’t even play because none of my other ligatures fit on it.
I am beyond disappointed. I’ve written to them to let them know what happened. I’m going to make a YouTube video to show what happened as I’m sure mine can’t be an isolated case. At the price these mouthpieces are, I expect that the included ligature works the way it’s supposed to. If they are not meant to be adjusted, then maybe don’t include a screwdriver and instructions inside the box telling you the ligature can be moved up or down to change the tone from “more spread” to “more focussed”?
I seriously just cried when it all fell apart in my hands.
Note to self: Don’t believe the hype!
It was bit of an adjustment to an 8 from the David Zagar Cool School I’d been playing on but I definitely prefer a smaller mouthpiece after finding the Jody Jazz HR always seeming “flat” and just too big in my mouth. (I have residual effects of Bell’s Palsy that affected the use of some of my facial muscles) so I thought I’d see if it worked better moving the ligature forward one notch. Took out the trusty included hex screwdriver and loosened the screws and that’s when it all went badly!
the ligature just would not fit back on the mouthpiece at all!! I unscrewed the screws all the way, and tried several times to re-attach the ligature to another position without success. I ended up going back to the middle position it had come in, screwed the screws in but it appears to have somehow stretched the width of the ligature so now it just falls right off!
I am beyond belief disappointed, especially as it cost me way more than I could really justify but I’d heard they were the bees knees. Now, after just one day, I have a ligature that doesn’t work and a long dreamed of mouthpiece I can’t even play because none of my other ligatures fit on it.
I am beyond disappointed. I’ve written to them to let them know what happened. I’m going to make a YouTube video to show what happened as I’m sure mine can’t be an isolated case. At the price these mouthpieces are, I expect that the included ligature works the way it’s supposed to. If they are not meant to be adjusted, then maybe don’t include a screwdriver and instructions inside the box telling you the ligature can be moved up or down to change the tone from “more spread” to “more focussed”?
I seriously just cried when it all fell apart in my hands.
Note to self: Don’t believe the hype!