awesome discovery Walley! makes sense. people are always saying to open up your embouchure and throat cavity but it’s not always an easy thing to do and keep up.

as for the filling in the hole, that happened to me as well. many years ago I lost the filling there and phoned Dave Guardala to see if I could get something to replace it. He told me to get some denture powder and do it myself cause that’s what he used! Said it was the hardest material he found that he could work with…also why his original mp’s are that pinky denture color there.

I went to my dentist and he gave me a small bottle of it and I’ve been replacing it with that for over 20 years (yes I always wear it down every year or so)

Sound was a dud today. I went through all my mouthpieces and reeds and ligatures. Still a dud. I put my teeth on the mouthpieces etc just like Johnny shows in his educational video. I finally ended with a Van Gogh lig and carbon fat boy mouthpiece and medium soft oxycarbon and all the wind I could muster. Every three notes I had to take in more air. Not a good day for horn blowing.

Crikey mate i hope you’re ok? Hoping it’s just a flu or cold or as @walley says a bad sax leak.
Let us know if you’re feeling better soon, William..
Don’t stop the music.