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For more than 40 years, Stork Custom Mouthpieces has combined craftsmanship with real-world performing and teaching experience.
As professional brass players themselves, John and Phyllis Stork bring decades of knowledge and hands-on understanding to the complex relationship between player, sound, and equipment.
Below you’ll find videos and articles covering topics from embouchure and airflow to bore size, rim design, and backbore function.
You can also schedule a live personal consultation with internationally recognized mouthpiece specialist “Doctor Mouthpiece,” Phyllis Stork.
Articles
Tongue Position and the War on Excessive Volume in Equipment Set Up
Perhaps the most confusing of all mouthpiece conundrums is the problem of balancing the resistance between the player...
How your lips dictate your mouthpiece choice
This issue of Dr. Mouthpiece deals with qualifying lip type and size. Many readers admit not having any real...
The basics of rim shape and cup shape
This week’s questions were sent to us from Japan; however they are universal in that they concern the very most basic...
How to choose a mouthpiece
This week I chose to feature two questions because they are connected by a common link. In both cases, the players...
How the bore size affects you.
I really appreciate your paper on "lip flesh" (abbreviated term) for I, when young and inexperienced, was a victim of...
Can endurance be permanently lost by a huge mouthpiece?
Can endurance be permanently lost by a huge MPC? Shouldn't it be gained because more effort is put in, so the body...
Bach-ify your mouthpiece? The backbore myth
I guess Bach-ify is a silly word. Maybe I should have said Bach-sounding, or Bach-like. Whatever version of the term...