SYOS mouthpieces are famous for providing customers with complete freedom to customize their own sound via their interactive website. Having received much feedback from customers and artists over the years, in their latest move SYOS are now additionally offering pre-designed mouthpieces that come in three different sound options. This new streamlined range is known as the SYOS ORIGINALS and there is a choice of SMOKY (dark sound), STEADY (balanced sound) or SPARK (bright sound). Syos stands for Shape Your Own Sound. The technology and the science behind their mouthpieces have been developed during many years of research in acoustics. SYOS use ABS plastic to craft their mouthpieces: this material allows them to get the highest degree of precision, with improved resistance and durability. A unique technology Syos mouthpieces were born at Ircam, the worldwide reference in terms of research on music and sound technologies. The meeting between Pauline, specialist of wind instruments, and Maxime, auditory perception expert, started the creation and development of a new and original way of crafting instruments.