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mirek

(Theo Wanne)

Besides sounding uniquely different, when two musicians play the exact same mouthpiece one can sound truly wonderful, and the other can sound truly…well…bad. This is because each person has a unique mouth cavity, a unique blowing style (some people blow hard, others really soft), and a unique concept of sound they are trying to get out of a mouthpiece. Some mouthpiece configurations truly help reproduce a persons sound concept and some really work against it. A mouthpiece that works against one persons sound concept could very likely magically support someone elses.

I remember the first time I refaced a vintage Link for Chris Potter. I learned a valuable lesson that day. I prepped a Link similar to the pieces I was making for Joshua Redman at the time. But while Josh sounded full and fat on that configuration Chris sounded incredibly bright and edgy. When we finally got the Link to the point where Chris was truly happy ALL the baffle was gone…all of it. I would have sounded totally dead on that mouthpiece. But because of Chris's playing style and the way he blows though the mouthpiece he sounded modern, fat and great without any baffle