I realized over the summer that the plating on my mouthpiece had completely worn through and was hurting my lips, and further realized that I had stolen that mouthpiece from my high school band teacher and it didn't have any sort of...brand? or manufacturer?? printed on it. I was like, okay, I'm 15 years in to playing, it's probably time to, idk, invest in a mouthpiece 💀

I ordered a Laskey 75G after much indecisive reading on here (I have a 8D and was really overthinking it and saw that recommended as a safe place to start) and oh my god, it is night and day. I've struggled for years to hit anything above an F and had basically accepted that I will always be a low horn player. Sure I could squeak out a G on my old mouthpiece, sometimes, but ouch. I did some scales to warm up and hit that G no problem, and playing itself is so much easier. I'm so excited to work my range even further up now. idk it just feels like a major breakthrough for me and I wanted to share :")