Can get rich and/or deeper sound easiler in spite of its nice response. Can prevent load for playing than the other similar-spec mouthpieces. However, not expensive nor cheap sound. Since the difference between this silver-plated and gold-plated is almost in touch of feeling, and gold-plated is too smooth for me, this lower price silver-plated was good for me. Compared to typical trumpet mouthpieces, the throat diameter is clearly wide, and the inner-cup slope is highly gentle with deeper cup, so the play feeling must be different from trumpet's. So need attention if trumpeters. However, this DW mouthpiece really provides easy control for playing flugelhorn.