Editing Dexter Gordon (section)

==Instruments and mouthpieces==
The earliest photographs of Gordon as a player show him with a [[C.G. Conn|Conn]] 30M "Connqueror" and an Otto Link mouthpiece. Later he adopted the standard Conn tenor, the 10M. In a 1962 interview with the British journalist Les Tomkins, he did not refer to the specific model of mouthpiece but stated that it was made for him personally. He stated that it was stolen around 1952.<ref name=tomkinsineterview /> In the Tomkins interview he referred to his mouthpiece as a small-chambered piece with a 5* (.085" under the Otto Link system) tip opening. He bought a [[Selmer Mark VI]] from [[Ben Webster]] after he lost his 10M during the trip to Paris. In a ''DownBeat'' magazine interview from 1977, he referred to his current mouthpiece as an Otto Link model with a #8 (.110" under the Otto Link system) tip opening.<ref name=Berginterview />