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Re: Switching from a V5 Lrye to M15

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2010-10-15 23:03

I have just never experienced this myself (and I have had Vandorens since the early '70s). My guess is that the difference could well be internal dimensions such as the size of the tone chamber. As Greg Smith points out, getting a mouthpiece to respond a certain way is an intricate dance between the dimensions of the lay (thickness of rails, tip opening, length of lay) and the bore/tone chamber dimensions. One cannot just predict the playability of a mouthpiece simply by having exact lay dimensions alone.

I say this since material makes less difference to me, though I have preferred some of the wooden mouthpieces since they tend to be less "edgy" sounding.

....................Paul Aviles

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