An Industry First - Custom Made Mouthpieces!

BEHN VINTAGE: You design your dream mouthpiece and we make it for you.
We'll provide instructions to make the process easy, educational, and exciting.
All you need to do is go through our options, make your selections and we'll do the rest.
Let's work together and let's create something special.


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Chamber & Bore
The Chamber is what's inside the beak portion of your mouthpiece. It'll create your resonance, response, and tonal character.
The Bore is best designed to serve your chamber's needs. The chamber makes the blowing feel, sound, and response, and the bore makes the intonation, body, and tonal scope.
We've got the experience and the equipment to produce beautiful mouthpieces for every style, sound, and occasion. All you need to do is let us know what you'd like your mouthpiece to sound and perform like, and we'll custom build your chamber for you - it's easy - just fill out the questions at checkout, and we'll take it from there.
You can always contact us if you've got questions: 405-651-6063
Rails
Narrower rails will create a quick handling experience, they'll brighten your timbre, add resonance, and reduce your blowing resistance.
Wider rails will slow down the way your mouthpiece responds, they'll add some working resistance, and they'll dampen your reed's vibrations - which in turn will dampen your resonance.
Note: Wider rails can blow free with longer facings.
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Very Narrow Rails

Here we offer special attention the Very Narrow railed option. These days BEHN is the only maker who produces very thin railed mouthpieces, however when done right, sublime resonance, brilliance, response, and energy can come from a thin railed mouthpiece.
Conventional wisdom would have you believe that thin rails are bright, and brightness in general is a bad thing. However if you just have a look over at the jazz tenor saxophone world - their perspective is different. Thin rails are difficult to make and so it becomes bragging rights to a mouthpiece maker who produces thin rails. And thin rails also offer more power, energy, and ease of propagation - the stuff that jazzers really welcome.
So how can thin railed mouthpieces benefit you - a classical artist? Well, consider that the old great vintage era mouthpieces of 100 years ago were ALL made with thin, and some with VERY thin rails. Those mouthpieces sounded great! The players using them made full, deep, warm and resonant sounds on them, and I dare say that they didn't sound bright-bad. They sounded bright-good. What's the difference? Well edgy, spread, and crass playing is bright-bad. Sweet, elegant, sonorous, and energetic elegance is bright-good.
Very Narrow rails, paired with a more resistant facing can balance each other to produce a highly refined, energetic, responsive, and beautifully sweet sounding mouthpiece that is nimble handling for your artistic whimsy.
Rail Thickness Graph

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FACING
Generally speaking, close facings require less embouchure manipulation and are more stable. Open facings offer a larger range, and allow for more embouchure involvement - by comparison.
It will help to know what facing you currently play and then add notes about what you like about it, and what you would like different.
Your CONCEPT
Let us know what what kind of sound and response you prefer. Do you like sparkly ringing, effervescent response, or mellow, broad, softer response?
