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Re: mouthpiece question

Author: Tony F
Date: 2024-09-16 03:48

Lydian, The poster refers to boring out the mouthpiece, not the instrument. The 1010 mouthpiece is bored as a cylinder, whereas the French-style mouthpiece is bored as a cone. The cylindrical boring is to increase the internal volume of the mouthpiece, otherwise it will not tune properly on a large-bore instrument. That being said, it is possible to bore out a French-style mouthpiece to tune properly on a 1010. I have a Selmer mouthpiece which was rebored by Dr Ed Pillinger to play on a 1010 and it tunes extremely well. I bored out a Vandoren B45 as an experiment and it also played OK, although not as well as the pillinger or original B&H 1010 mouthpieces.

Tony F.

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