The sound is much darker than that of the Dukoffs that I normally play. I have a collection of vintage D, D*, and my personal favourite, an S model. I also have a paint-peeling, new D chamber from Dukoff. This Level Aire is a completely different animal.<\/p>\n The Level Aire requires at least twice the air that any Dukoff does. If you don’t have a lot of air and\/or the proper breath support, you’re not going to get this piece to sound like anything.<\/p>\n Once you’ve got the air and the breath support established, then you have something to work with. The sound is lush, and reminds me of a smoke-filled jazz club.<\/p>\n Although I haven’t yet played it on all of my tenors (I just bought it a few days ago), I can tell you it works wonderfully on the following horns:<\/p>\n It does not, however, work on the Zephyr. The horn loses its rich overtones and becomes unresponsive. In short, it sounds like crap. Interestingly enough, Kevin also had a Zephyr and he had the same problem. The mouthpiece did work though, on his Martin Committee III.<\/p>\n It will be interesting to see what this mouthpiece does on the Hohner President (which already requires a lot of air), the Martin Handcraft, and on the 10M.<\/p>\n Although I won’t be using the Level Aire when playing electric blues with Deception<\/em>, I do see this as a wonderful jazz mouthpiece. I still would like to put my jazz band<\/a> back together, and if I do, this piece will provide that quintessential jazz sound with some of my primary horns.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n![\"Arnold](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Left-Side1.jpg?resize=1000%2C311&ssl=1\" "\\"Left-Side\\"")
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