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Hi to all 
This is my first post although I follow the community posts for months and have browsed all topics in yahoo group.
The reason to subscribe was that I had bought a used (rare?) metal 'MIAMI' Dukoff #6 mouthpiece from ebay and when received I noticed it condition was very bad:the inside was very rough and ?rusty and some small scarfs all around and some on the tip rail.
Playing produced a strange sound will lot of squirks.
Using the photos for a Dukoff on the groups (and VERY SCARED at the beginning) I worked with it and after some nights of work I managed to get it playable and may I say enjoyable!
 
The only problem I have is that some notes on the lower octave do not come so easy (sometimes tune on the next octave, like G, A) and I overcome by puting some more mouthpiece in to sound ok (?? dont ask why...I do not know...)
What would you propose?
 
thanking you in advance 
Gianni V.
P.S. I am amateur sax player playing only a couple of years for fun.
I use a YAMAHA YAS-475 in very good condition and using the standard 4C mouthpie I have no issues although the sound is NOT GREAT!


      

If you post measurements of your facing curve (feelers and glass gage readings) and tip opening, I might be able to tell what the problem may be.

--- On Sun, 6/21/09, Gianni Veloce <gianniveloce@...> wrote:


From: Gianni Veloce <gianniveloce@...>
Subject: [MouthpieceWork] 1st post: Help on Dukoff low notes
To: MouthpieceWork@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sunday, June 21, 2009, 4:01 PM










Hi to all 
This is my first post although I follow the community posts for months and have browsed all topics in yahoo group.
The reason to subscribe was that I had bought a used (rare?) metal 'MIAMI' Dukoff #6 mouthpiece from ebay and when received I noticed it condition was very bad:the inside was very rough and ?rusty and some small scarfs all around and some on the tip rail.
Playing produced a strange sound will lot of squirks.
Using the photos for a Dukoff on the groups (and VERY SCARED at the beginning) I worked with it and after some nights of work I managed to get it playable and may I say enjoyable!
 
The only problem I have is that some notes on the lower octave do not come so easy (sometimes tune on the next octave, like G, A) and I overcome by puting some more mouthpiece in to sound ok (?? dont ask why...I do not know...)
What would you propose?
 
thanking you in advance 
Gianni V.
P.S. I am amateur sax player playing only a couple of years for fun.
I use a YAMAHA YAS-475 in very good condition and using the standard 4C mouthpie I have no issues although the sound is NOT GREAT!