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Re: Need advice re: facing vs. opening

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2022-11-13 00:45

A lot depends on what "easier to control" means. I doubt if the longer facing of the M30 would make a big difference. You might want to go to the opposite end of the spectrum - the M15 from your list or even an M13Lyre and see what that kind of a facing feels like. I don't know what the online vendors' return policies are right now - especially since COVID stopped many of them from accepting returns at all - but the quickest approach may be to order one of each and return the ones you don't like. If returns are allowed and you buy one of them, some vendors waive any restocking fee.

But keep in mind that "control" (meaning, to me, mostly stable pitch and quick response) can be facilitated or not by other factors - the rail thickness, the baffle shape just behind the tip, even the throat shape, and two mouthpieces with the same nominal facing may produce quite different results.

Karl

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