One day I came across something on one of these forums (was it posted by you, TM?) that said to effect, "When in doubt, drill it out!" and something else to the effect of "Too much resistance? Time to introduce Mr. Mouthpiece to Mr. Drill." I chuckled a bit at these because having been down that road, simply drilling out the mouthpiece sure as heck didn't do much for me!
I'm not saying here that I know the answers to how a horn blows the way that it does and what relationship the different aspects on a mouthpiece and it's marriage to the horn affects the blow, but suffice it to say that I'm of the belief that drilling out a mouthpiece is not really the answer.
I have never had a better all around mouthpiece than the one that I screwed up, so for those of you contemplating drilling your mouthpiece, think twice and even three times before you "introduce Mr. Mouthpiece to Mr. Drill".
