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As a saxophone player that also has a background in acoustic engineering, I believe that Syos offers a great match of sustainability (they only 3D-print pieces on demand), competences (great acoustic design, but also the ability of listening to saxophone players and interpreting their subjective feedback) and robustness (if you accidentally drop your mouthpiece, you might break it, but you will know in advance that won’t have to spend a lifetime to find another one with the same response). When it comes to searching for a new setup, I try to make myself at least as comfortable as with the old one in terms of ease of blow, feel in my mouth and sound power. My new Syos mouthpiece owns all these qualities, together with an outstanding fullness and homogeneity across the registers.

My Syos mouthpiece is really is everything I could have hoped for, and I'm actually surprised Maxime was so spot on with interpreting my requests. Couldn’t be happier and I'm now playing with a sound I have dreamt of.

I had almost given up on finding a mouthpiece, which really fit me, my expectations for sound, quality and the feeling of playing it, without having to give too big of an effort to make it sound like I want it to. But as I tryied Syos mouthpieces everything changed. This mouthpiece fills all my expectations of the perfect piece. It feels more like a part of my body, than a part of my saxophone. It sounds like me without any effort. I'm absolutely gratefull to play Syos mouthpieces on all my horns!

I had problems with all the mouthpieces I used on my baritone sax : Syos solved them all at once! A very helpful and efficient team! This is amazing. I recommend Syos to everyone.

These are fantastic mouthpieces; they have all the subtly at low volume without compromising on power and clarity of sound at higher volumes. Its a really great idea.

Too often, the musician instruments makers and the musicians belong to distant worlds, which turns opaque for one, the practice of the other. Working with Pauline in implementing the production of an “ideal” sound is an very enriching, fun and inspiring experience. What offers Syos, except for the wonderful opportunity of a custom-made mouthpiece, is a fascinating process of exchange, definition, experiment, adjustment, which accompanies the building of the mouthpiece and turns it into a very privileged moment for every musician.

Biography For more than 10 years, Ophonius develop his musical atmosphere around original compositions, bringing a personnal reading of current music. Impulese: it's the word than define the most the quintet's music. First outstretched, like a bridge thrown between jazz fields and the far lands of the world music. Then bending on soft and warm melodies. The blow, cornestone of the saxophone trio, melt into a polychrome sound scheme, at the crossing of jazz, improvisation and art music. The drummer Fabien Eckert, invited on the second album, and the bassist Olivier Battle more recently, joined the band to bring the percussive energy of jazz into the music of the saxophone trio. Ophonius played in many festivals like Europa Jazz, Les Rendez-vous de l'Erdre, Jazz Altitude Festival, Alma Jazz festival... Two albums have been recorded: Helvetic Atlas (2004) and L'Azur du Globe (2008), the third is currently under preparation. The musicians of the band (including two researcher in acoustics passionnate about music) also present their music through the Scientific concerts, a pedagogical musical journey in the world of physics and acoustics.

The Syos mouthpieces are hands down my favorite mouthpieces I’ve ever played. I was able to spend time with the company to dial in the baffle and intonation of the mouthpieces to best fit my horn and my sound. No longer will I have to go through the painful process of trying countless mouthpieces to find the right fit. And to know that I’m playing a 3D-printed mouthpiece from the future is a welcome perk! Thank you, Syos!

Syos work is interesting because it mixes a new technologic expertise - in mutation - and a great sensitivity to the musicians expectations/aspirations. The process which led to the mouthpiece I am playing today taught me a lot and is very introspective for a saxophonist because it forces him to formulate and define what he is looking for and all along the steps to correct and sharpen an acoustic desire which is a team work between the musician – his aspirations, qualities and defaults – and Syos team represented by Maxime and Pauline. As often the path you take to reach the goal is as important as the goal itself.