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<blockquote data-quote="lydian" data-source="post: 569619" data-attributes="member: 8392">[USER=9742]@cappers[/USER],Grab just the neck and blow through it as hard as you can. Is there any resistance? No matter what minor differences exist among necks, all have essentially zero resistance. But a bad fitting, leaky neck can certainly create acoustic resistance, which is what a player typically feels when the horn doesn&#039;t play right.In my case, with the intonation issue, Yamaha admitted that particular neck wasn&#039;t in tune and actually produced a different model to fix it. I think it was a model V1 versus G1, I forget which is which. One played perfectly in tune without any special effort. The other was very sharp in the upper-mid range and was very difficult to correct with embouchure/voicing changes.I&#039;ve also had horns that came with more than one neck. Yes, minor differences between them existed, but nothing compared to the difference you get from a different mouthpiece or reed.Unless your current neck is damaged, any issues you may currently have cannot be fixed by a different neck. You&#039;re about 15% of the way to your optimum sound in your development as a player. Necks start coming into play when you&#039;re 99-100% of the way to your optimum sound. With practice, you&#039;ll be in that place in a few more years. But right now, you&#039;ve only just left the parking lot.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="lydian, post: 569619, member: 8392"] [USER=9742]@cappers[/USER], Grab just the neck and blow through it as hard as you can. Is there any resistance? No matter what minor differences exist among necks, all have essentially zero resistance. But a bad fitting, leaky neck can certainly create acoustic resistance, which is what a player typically feels when the horn doesn't play right. In my case, with the intonation issue, Yamaha admitted that particular neck wasn't in tune and actually produced a different model to fix it. I think it was a model V1 versus G1, I forget which is which. One played perfectly in tune without any special effort. The other was very sharp in the upper-mid range and was very difficult to correct with embouchure/voicing changes. I've also had horns that came with more than one neck. Yes, minor differences between them existed, but nothing compared to the difference you get from a different mouthpiece or reed. Unless your current neck is damaged, any issues you may currently have cannot be fixed by a different neck. You're about 15% of the way to your optimum sound in your development as a player. Necks start coming into play when you're 99-100% of the way to your optimum sound. With practice, you'll be in that place in a few more years. But right now, you've only just left the parking lot. [/QUOTE]

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