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Mouthpiece (comics), a DC comics character; Mouthpiece (band), a hardcore punk band; Figuratively and with negative connotations to indicate the role of a spokesperson or mass media venue that is used to perpetuate the views or agenda of another, as in "the newspaper became a mouthpiece for its owner's political views"
The mouthpiece on brass instruments is the part of the instrument placed on the player's lips. The mouthpiece is a circular opening that is enclosed by a rim and that leads to the instrument via a semi-spherical or conical cavity called the cup.
Mouthpiece was an American straight edge hardcore punk band, active from 1991 to 1996. [1] Often seen as one of the seminal acts of the ' youth crew ' era or the earliest revival of it. [ citation needed ] In 2000, the band reunited to play a show at CBGB , [ 2 ] and in 2019, they reformed to play with Lifetime at The Stone Pony .
The mouthpiece of a woodwind instrument is that part of the instrument which is placed partly in the player's mouth. Single-reed instruments , capped double-reed instruments , and fipple flutes have mouthpieces while exposed double-reed instruments (apart from those using pirouettes ) and open flutes do not.
Peterson System Standard Pipe. A tobacco pipe, often called simply a pipe, is a device specifically made to smoke tobacco.It comprises a chamber (the bowl) for the tobacco from which a thin hollow stem (shank) emerges, ending in a mouthpiece. [1]
Much later, single-reed instruments started using heteroglottal reeds, where a reed is cut and separated from the tube of cane and attached to a mouthpiece of some sort. By contrast, in an uncapped double reed instrument (such as the oboe and bassoon), there is no mouthpiece; the two parts of the reed vibrate against one another.