Posts Tagged ‘tenor mouthpiece’
John Thomas Tenor Saxophone Mouthpiece Review
June 21st, 2010 | 
Author: Here we have a John Thomas tenor saxophone mouthpiece. I actually played this about a year ago but the recording has been sitting on my computer since. I totally forgot about it until this morning when I read a thread on “Sax on the Web” asking about John Thomas and his mouthpiece work.
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Otto Link Super Tone Master Tenor Saxophone Mouthpiece Refaced by Eric Falcon
This is another Modern Otto Link Super Tone Master I received to try out. This one was originally a 7 tip (.100) but was refaced and oped up to a .110 by Eric Falcon. From what I understand Eric Falcon used to do mouthpiece work for Jody Espina of Jody Jazz. He now is refacing mouthpieces and also has his own line of HR mouthpieces that he makes at Warburton. ( I have an alto,soprano and 2 tenors sitting on my desk right now)
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Tags: Eric Falcon, otto link, refased, saxophone mouthpiece, Super Tone Master, tenor mouthpiece |
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Drake Vintage Resin Jazz Tenor Mouthpiece
This is a new tenor saxophone mouthpiece I received in the mail last week from Aaron Drake. Drake mouthpieces have been around for a number of years and Aaron is best known for his Ceramic mouthpieces which I have reviewed here before. Recently, he has updated his website www.DrakeMouthpieces.com and come out with a new line of mouthpieces made out of “vintage resin”. Aaron sent me 3 tenor mouthpieces to try:
VRJT – Jazz Tenor (passaround model)
SSJT – Son of Slant (medium chamber)
NYJT – NY Jazz tenor (prototype – unbanded)
This review is of the Jazz model tenor saxophone mouthpiece.
Jazz Model
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Tags: aaron drake, Jazz model, NY Jazz, Son of Slant, tenor mouthpiece, tenor saxophone, vintage resin |
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Drake Vintage Resin NY Jazz Tenor Mouthpiece
This is a new mouthpiece I received in the mail last week from Aaron Drake. Drake mouthpieces have been around for a number of years and Aaron is best known for his Ceramic mouthpieces which I have reviewed here before. Recently, he has updated his website www.DrakeMouthpieces.com and come out with a new line of mouthpieces made out of “vintage resin”. Aaron sent me 3 mouthpieces to try:
VRJT – Jazz Tenor (passaround model)
SSJT – Son of Slant (medium chamber)
NYJT – NY Jazz tenor (prototype – unbanded)
This review is of the NY Jazz tenor mouthpiece.
NY Jazz
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Tags: aaron drake, NY Jazz, tenor mouthpiece, vintage resin |
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Drake Vintage Resin Son of Slant Tenor Mouthpiece
This is a new mouthpiece I received in the mail last week from Aaron Drake. Drake mouthpieces have been around for a number of years and Aaron is best known for his Ceramic mouthpieces which I have reviewed here before. Recently, he has updated his website www.DrakeMouthpieces.com and come out with a new line of mouthpieces made out of “vintage resin”. Aaron sent me 3 mouthpieces to try:
VRJT – Jazz Tenor (passaround model)
SSJT – Son of Slant (medium chamber)
NYJT – NY Jazz tenor (prototype – unbanded)
This is the review for the Son of Slant tenor saxophone mouthpiece.
Son of Slant
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Tags: aaron drake, Drake Mouthpieces, Son of Slant, tenor mouthpiece, vintage resin |
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Selmer Long Shank Soloist Tenor Mouthpiece
This is a Vintage Selmer Long Shank Soloist Tenor Mouthpiece that was originally a C*. This mouthpiece has been refaced to a .105 tip opening by Brian Powell. I have been wanting to try one of these ever since I tried a Selmer short shank soloist about a year ago. I loved the short shank soloist but the mouthpiece sat so far out on the edge of my cork when it was in tune that it seemed like it would fall off of my saxophone neck. The long shank model fixes that problem and gives me a very similar sound…………
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Morgan MLL 8* Tenor Saxophone Mouthpiece
This a Morgan MLL 8* tenor saxophone mouthpiece. This use to be a ML model but the owner of the piece sent it to Erik Greiffenhagen to have the chamber made larger so now it is a MLL model. The tip opening of this mouthpiece is an 8* which for a Morgan is a .105. With the larger chamber I have to admit that I like this mouthpiece even more than when it was an ML. It has a big sound and the mouthpiece feels like it is vibrating when I play it. You would think with the bigger chamber it would be less powerful and darker but it feels more powerful to me. The bottom range notes are just lush and full sounding with a nice crispness to them. There seems to be a husky full quality to the notes that I love. The upper range rings nicely and it plays very smoothly and evenly all over the horn.
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Tags: Erik Greiffenhagen, Morgan MLL, Ralph Morgan, tenor mouthpiece |
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White Brilhart Tonalin 7* Tenor Mouthpiece
Here is a White Brilhart Tonalin 7* tenor saxophone mouthpiece. I believe this one is from the late 60′s although I’m not an expert on Vintage Brilhart mouthpieces. Mark Sepinuck was kind enough to let me try this one. He felt that it gave him a “Gene Ammons” type of sound. I really dig the sound of Gene Ammons so I was very curious to try this piece………
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Barone Jazz Tenor Saxophone Mouthpiece
Here is a fairly new Phil Barone tenor saxophone mouthpiece. This is the “Jazz” model and is a 7*(.105) tip opening. I believe this is a 2009 model although there is no date on it (his older mouthpieces had dates engraved on the side of them). I have owned 5-6 Barone mouthpieces over the years and I was very curious to try these new models that Phil is making. I received this with a Barone Hollywood model to try out………….
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Tags: Barone jazz, Barone Saxophone, Phil Barone, tenor mouthpiece |
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Barone Hollywood Tenor Saxophone Mouthpiece
Here is a fairly new Phil Barone tenor saxophone mouthpiece. This is the “Hollywood” model and is an 8 (.110) tip opening. I believe this is a 2009 model although there is no date on it ( his older mouthpieces had dates engraved on the side of them). I have owned 5-6 Barone mouthpieces over the years and I was very curious to try these new models that Phil is making. As you can see from the pictures of the baffle this has what looks like a shelf type baffle in it that made me think it would be very bright and loud. It wasn’t though………….
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Tags: Hollywood, Phil Barone, saxophone, tenor mouthpiece |
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