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by Richard Merewether
Copyright© 1978 Richard Merewether
It is crucially important in the early stages of playing to avoid embarking with a mouthpiece too extreme in any of its features without good reason.There is a bewildering array from which to choose. Mouthpieces vary in depth of cup, width across the top, width of the playing-rim and the flatness or curvature of this, size of the throat or aperture, and contour of the expanding 'back-bore' which leads from this into the mouthpipe proper.
A good teacher will advise which type should be worth pursuing in view of thickness or thinness of lips and the student's teeth-formation; PAXMAN stock a wide variety and have experienced players always at hand to advise also.
A wise initial step is to begin with a good middle-of-the road mouthpiece of medium depth. Such a choice could be the PAXMAN 3B (cup-diameter 16.89 mm, rim-width 4 .4 mm) or PAXMAN 4B (cup-diameter l 7.78 mm, rim width 4.55 mm)-both with throat-bore of 4.5 mm diameter as standard, but enlarged to order. From either of these any constructive move could then be made if the need became apparent.
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