well if the rubber mouth piece players sound too dark and the metal mouthpieces sound to bright, i guess it makes sense in an orchestra not to mix up the saxes when they play in unison!

classical stuff tends to be more dark sounding – annoying reason i had to change my setup for classical grades.

its only recently i can tell the difference in sound between my dark & bright mouthpieces.

another interesting thing he said, some conductors look at the sax section, and think this is the part of the band that is the most difficult section to get all the sax players sounding alike.

i guess if 10 violin players play the same note, and 1 violin player plays the wrong note – he can pick that up straight away.

i guess i’ll find another article that ssys the opposite – i’ll keep an open mind. lol