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The soul patch is a small patch of facial hairFacial hair

Facial hair is a secondary sex characteristic in human males....
 just below the lower lip and above the chin. It came to prominence in the 1950s and 1960s, when it was a style of beardBeard

A beard is the hair that grows on a man's chin, cheeks, neck, and the area above the upper lip....
 common among jazzmen. It became popular with beatnikBeatnik

The term beatnik was coined by Herb Caen in an article in the San Francisco Chronicle on April 2, 1958....
s, artists, and those who frequented the jazz scene and moved in literary and artistic circles. Jazz trumpeters in particular preferred the soul patch for the comfort it provided when using a trumpet mouthpieceMouthpiece (brass)

On brass instruments the mouthpiece is that part of the instrument which is placed next to the player's mouth....
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