Archive for the ‘Soprano Mouthpiece Reviews’ Category

This is an old Morgan 6J soprano mouthpiece that a student of mine let me borrow.   These were made by the legendary Ralph Morgan.  Ralph passed away in 2007 and it was a great loss to the saxophone world.  I’ve told this story before but one time I had a Morgan mouthpiece that was refaced by Jon Van Wie.  I was complaining that I wasn’t really digging it online and the next thing I know I get an email from Ralph asking to talk to me on the phone.  I called him up and he talked to me about mouthpieces and the saxophone for what seemed like an hour.  He offered to look at the piece and reface it for free if it needed it.  It seemed like he knew the answer to every question I had and he really seemed to enjoy talking about  the saxophone and mouthpieces.  It was a great experience to be able to talk to him like that.

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This is a new Drake ceramic soprano mouthpiece that I am trying out. This piece has a .065 tip opening and a small chamber.  The mouthpiece plays with a nice  focused tone. Much more focused sounding than the Drake large chambered mouthpiece. If you listen to both clips you can hear the difference between a fatter more spread sound and a more focused direct sound.

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This is a another new Drake ceramic soprano mouthpiece that I am trying out.  this piece has a .065 tip opening and a larger chamber in it than I have seen in other soprano mouthpieces.  This mouthpiece plays with a big fat tone.  Much more spread sounding than the  Drake small chambered mouthpiece. If you listen to both clips you can hear the difference between a fatter more spread sound and a more focused direct sound.

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This is a sound clip of my main soprano saxophone mouthpiece for the last 6 years.  It is a Selmer Super Session J mouthpiece that I  bought from WWBW. At the time that I bought this, I also tried an I tip opening. I remember feeling like the I gave me a Kenny G type soprano sound (more of a pop kind of sound) and the J gave me more of a  Coltrane type soprano sound. I went with the J after playing them for about a week.  Up to this point in my life I have played very few soprano mouthpiece. Before the Super Session J I played on a Claude Lakey for about 16 years. The only reason I played on that was because it was the only soprano mouthpiece the store had.  The Selmer Super Session was a much better mouthpiece for me compared to the Lakey.

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