How does the mouthpieces work?

The mouthpiece has always been and will be a mystery,

There are so many thousands of variants that every little modification is like a totally different mouthpiece.

My story is also your story

I have been making mouthpieces for over thirty years and since day one I have not stopped investigating how they work.

And you, you can spend your whole life buying and trying mouthpieces without finding your perfect mouthpiece and the saddest part, if you have one that works for you, you will never know why?, since nobody has ever explained anything to you about the mouthpieces.

For years (like you) I was lost and analyzed every change I made to the mouthpieces, but always stumbled upon the same thing.

Why does the same mouthpiece work in a very different way if one musician plays it or another or if he changes instruments, the same mouthpiece no longer works the same?

One day, talking to a Doctor of acoustics, she gave me the keys to understand how mouthpieces work. It opened my eyes!! 

!!!!Listen well!!!

She told me that it had been years since she had worked with musicians to obtain acoustic results. 

For example, analyze the acoustics of a mouthpiece.

The Doctor's words: If we work with musicians we will only have these readings.

The mood, mental state and physical state of the musician

But no we will have a decisive result on the tests that are carried out.

If we carry out the same test, in the same room, with the same musician, instrument, mouthpiece, at different minutes or hours, the result will be totally different.

Here, I had the key!!!

When I understood the Doctor's words, I began to understand how the mouthpieces work.

To understand how they work, I had to look beyond the simple mouthpiece.

I started to understand that the mouthpiece is nothing, if we do not see the musician, mouthpiece and instrument as a whole.

How do you have your lip, how do you blow air, the organology of the mouthpiece, is it compensated with your way of playing?, of blowing air?? What resistance does the instrument you play have? and as the Doctor said, the mood, the mental state and the physical state of the musician.

Actually I realized that everything was much simpler, 

The mouthpiece is a simple regulator.

If it is not balanced, with the air you blow or the instrument, the mouthpiece simply will not work for you.

When I realized this, I stopped making standard mouthpieces, to making custom mouthpieces so that I could really help musicians.

If someone tells you or tries to sell you that this model or brand of mouthpiece is the best, they are simply misinformed or lying to you.

(You will find thousands on Youtube)

Perhaps it is the best for him, because of his way of playing, of blowing air, the instrument, his lip, but is it the same for you?   Sure it isn't.

At Romera Brass ACADEMY I not only analyze the mouthpiece but I delve into many more aspects that no one has explained to you.

I am aware that it is a long and complicated job to explain, but if you want to learn, I am even more eager to explain what I am learning every day.

I put on my cap and !!let's start!!!!!