We are in the process of updating the web site with some exciting new products :

—Stainless screw rims - now offered with H-Kote™

—Graham Ashton artist series of mouthpieces for trumpet, rotary trumpet, piccolo trumpet, and cornet.

— H-Kote™ Gold Titanium Nitride coating for stainless steel mouthpieces- It’s beautiful, comfortable, highly biocompatible for those with metal allergies, and it will virtually last a life time. Click on the link -upper left.

— We will feature (not sell) in depth, select Loud Mouthpiece models for this hugely succesful and expanding line of stainless steel mouthpieces.

—Dave Taylor stainless bass trombone models later this year!!
* PRELUDE
* REED OVERVIEW
* INTERLUDE
* MOUTHPIECE OVERVIEW

For additional information - use the ALL QUESTIONS link
at the end of this page.

bach trumpet mouthpiece
sax mouthpiece

As a PRELUDE to a discussion of reeds and mouthpieces, it is essential to note the function of the REED-MOUTHPIECE-INSTRUMENT as an acoustical system. For reference, advantage is gained from a glance at string instruments: one can easily perceive that all the tone which radiates from a violin is caused by a single source - i.e. the strings. For reference we assume a bowed violin, tuned at A=440 Hz.

1) a string is powered by the violin bow
2) the energy from the string is coupled to the violin body
by the bridge and sound post
3) the pitch of the string is varied by finger position on the finger board
4) the violin body acts like a sympathetic, multi-pitch resonator

While it seems as though all of the tone is created by the After another round of squeezes the profile is right. Note the hills and valleys of the inner edge. It will be difficult to get a good seal with such an irregular inner edge. So use little pulls and pushes to even out the hills and valleys…