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In memory of Ken Beason. This video was his idea. I first met Ken while I was working for Macsax from 2016-2017. He was doing a lot of our horn setups remotely from his home in North Carolina, he was our resident horn repair expert, but of course was widely known as one of the best saxophone technicians on the planet. I still have never felt a setup feel quite as clean and crisp as he did them. There are of course many skilled saxophone techs out there who do great work, but Ken Beason was Ken Beason. When I sent my Mark VI to him to overhaul in 2017, he took the entire horn apart, body tube and all, which is no surprise for people familiar with Ken’s work. He called me during the overhaul process to let me know that he discovered that the body tube near the upper stack was slightly undersized compared to his vast self-compiled spreadsheet of Mark VI dimensions, and corrected for it with his custom body tube mandrels. He was able to tell that the Selmer factory worker in 1962 had either heated up that section of the body too hot, or too quickly, which cased it to shrink down too quickly past the ideal geometry. Not your run of the mill repair technician to say the least. I’m still playing that same overhaul setup on my tenor from 2017 with basically no issues. His “Horn Doctor” key clamps work. Ken was hanging around with us at the Retro Revival booth at the 2023 Namm show, checking over the Tru-Six tenors that he played a huge part in developing and designing. Long story short, Ken really liked my first “making a mouthpiece” video, and then told me he had a great idea for me to make a video about, to turn an actual doorstop into a mouthpiece. I thought it was a hilarious idea, a classic Ken Beason joke. I assume most saxophone / clarinet players are aware, but a “doorstop” is a derogatory term for a bad playing mouthpiece. It’s a fitting term due to mouthpieces being kind of wedge shaped, and can actually be used pretty effectively to prop a door open. At the time of him sharing his video idea with me, I really had no idea how I would go about making a mouthpiece out of a wedge shape instead of starting with a piece of round stock, but I kept it in my list of to-do video ideas. On a technical note, I think the mouthpiece turned out great. It definitely plays the best out of the three handmade mouthpieces that I’ve done so far. The articulation response is surprisingly good, and I do like the overall tone, even though it’s a bit brighter than what I would play for a main mouthpiece due to the long and high baffle. And just like the others, I did absolutely no play testing during the making process, just to add an additional layer of difficulty/ fun. After professionally working on over 4000 mouthpieces now, you could say that I have a highly-tuned sense for what does what. For any more serious mouthpiece work and designing, play testing during the refacing is a critical step, but for a fun project like this, it’s satisfying to nail the design in one attempt. Well, this is the finished result, it’s too bad Ken’s not here to share it with after his unexpected passing, but to me it will serve as a document of an un-told Ken Beason joke for others to hopefully enjoy!