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Re: Mouthpiece Design -- Ralph Morgan's Notes on the Shape of the Beak

Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2016-04-29 18:25

For about 2 years, I played a Morgan duckbill mouthpiece made by the great man himself. It played very easily and sounded good to me. Then I heard myself on tape playing in a quintet and didn't like my sound at all. It was dull and lacked resonance. When I went back to the standard shape (Opperman), I sounded much better.

To me, the standard design opens my mouth wider, which sounds better, to me and on tape.

YMMV. It's important to record yourself when trying out a mouthpiece -- up close and as far away as you can get in the room. Your own bone conduction distorts the sound that others hear.

IMHO, Mogan's speculations on wall thickness are no more than that and don't match my experience.

Ken Shaw

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