I am a beginner on saxophone, but professional clarinet player, and I decided randomly to buy this mouthpiece to learn with. I learned to get a sound pretty much easy, and now after a month o f use I can say that it has an universal sound, you can either play jazz, rock and classic music. It is highly flexible, and you can have either mellow sound and metal sound. What I didn't like is that it has rather small and short shank and I had to modify a little the saxophone neck in order to have a correct position of mouthpiece, and of course, the intonation.