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Re: Is my mouthpiece too asymmetrical?

Author: Ed
Date: 2015-04-22 19:16

Perhaps the idea should not be making a reed perfectly balanced, but making a reed perfectly balanced *for your mouthpiece*. It is like tailoring a suit. It can be made perfectly, but no person is perfect with complete symmetry on both sides of his/her body. A good tailor would not worry that one sleeve is an inch longer as long as it fits the client.

Many mouthpieces have slight differences in the rails or imperfections in the facing or develop them with wear. Players adjust the reeds or adapt to the mouthpiece. There are many great players who played on mouthpieces with slight anomalies. Some actually believed that those qualities gave their mouthpiece a special character.

The great mouthpiece craftsman Everett Matson told me of his experience working on a mouthpiece for one of our legendary players. He said that the mouthpiece had some really odd inequalities in the facing from side to side. He straightened it out, putting it to equal specs. The player did not like it as much and he returned it to its original crooked facing which the player liked.

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