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Working at a music store, I am always the first to try new mouthpieces when they come in. I have yet to find any mouthpiece, including all of the Vandoren mouthpieces, that matches the tone of this mouthpiece. It's dark. You can play soft. You can play loud without blasting. Your tone won't spread. You won't fall in and out of tune. It's an amazing mouthpiece. You really cannot beat the price. It's amazing.

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I went through about 6 mouthpieces before this beauty. 5RV (second best besides the M13L), 5RVL, B45, B45L, B40, and M30 (the best so far besides the M13L). All of them sounded somewhat unsatisfactory, and some of them even stuffy and very agonizing. I was looking for a mouthpiece that will produce a beautiful sound for me. After going through 6 mouthpieces (and spending over 200 dollars at least), I decided to try this one out at a music vendor. I will never forget that moment - easiness of playing, beauty and evenness of tone, reed-friendly characteristic, and staying in tune (I had to occasionally pull out and in the barrel with the M30 I had before). I was blown away and wanted to buy the mouthpiece, but the price was very expensive ($100), so I just came back home and ordered the mouthpiece on WWBW. Now I am happy with my tone and sound. I love this item, and would say that this is Vandoren's best mouthpiece (there's also M13, which gives brighter sound. I wanted dark sound, so I chose M13L instead). HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

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The M13 Lyre is a mouthpiece that I keep coming back to. It has a lovely dark sound, but without the flabbiness I've found in other dark playing mouthpieces. The response and ease of playing is great, too. I am very happy with this mouthpiece for my own performing needs, and I have recommended it to several students as well. No complaints about the price, either!

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I find this mouthpiece to be amazingly responsive. It produces a consistent, even sound trough all registers. It sounds good enough for a pro, and is easy enough to play for a student. Very versatile.

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This mouthpiece is just an amazing mouthpiece, and really I have nothing bad to say about it at all. Right out of the box, it sounded amazing. I?m also using Vandorens LC21L leather ligature with the three interchangeable reed plates. With that ligature, I really found the sound that I have been looking for ever since I picked up the clarinet over 10 years ago. The reason I was looking for another mouthpiece is because I?m currently involved in the Sweeney Todd musical right now that?s being put on by the local community college, and the mouthpiece I had was just terrible. Never liked it to begin with. So I started looking online, and I read the reviews about this one, and amongst all the others I have tried (too many to list), this one is the best. It helps produce a nice deep and dark tone way down in the lower register, and responds to articulation very well. The higher notes are fairly easy to hit as well and you don?t lose the sound quality either, which is bomb! It even responds exceptionally well in the middle register when you're going up and down so you don?t have to worry about squeaking or your sound getting fuzzy. this is THE BEST MOUTHPIECE I have ever tried, and I recommend this to any musician of any level who is looking for a classic dark round sound that you would hear on NPR radio.