User Manual

4
Yamaha Mouthpieces
The Music Starts Here …
A mouthpiece affects both how you play and how your instrument sounds in
very significant ways. Fit and feel are obviously major factors, but the mouthpiece
also exerts a considerable influence on your tone, range, and even intonation.
The mouthpiece is the point of greatest sound pressure within the instrument,
therefore its acoustic qualities — dependent on material, thickness, shape, and
other factors — affect the overall sound of the instrument to a remarkable degree.
The taper of the instrument extends all the way from the mouthpiece to the
bell, so in a very real sense the mouthpiece is an integral part of the instrument’s
sound-producing mechanism. A part that must be chosen with the utmost care.