{"id":11068,"date":"2013-08-22T10:48:02","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T15:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/?p=11068"},"modified":"2022-11-18T12:23:38","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T17:23:38","slug":"absolute-tenorer-tenor-saxophone-mouthpiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/absolute-tenorer-tenor-saxophone-mouthpiece\/","title":{"rendered":"Absolute “Tenorer” Tenor Saxophone Mouthpiece"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today,\u00a0 I am reviewing a mouthpiece made by the Absolute company<\/a>.\u00a0 These are made in Italy.\u00a0 This model is called the “Tenorer”.\u00a0 There is also a Tenor AL, Tenor ST and a Tenor + model on their website. You can also find all these models for Baritone,Alto and Soprano saxophones as well.\u00a0 The AL model stands for black anodized aluminum.\u00a0 The ST\u00a0 for stainless steel and I assume the R at the end of Tenor stands for Resin.
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Absolute “Tenorer” Tenor Saxophone Mouthpiece
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All of these models are priced pretty reasonably.\u00a0 This model is about 147 US dollars. (the exchange rate is always changing so this price will fluctuate somewhat)<\/p>\n

The mouthpiece looks great.\u00a0 There is some uneveness in the tip rails but it is very minute and doesn’t effect the playability of the mouthpiece.\u00a0 It has a straight baffle that angles down into a small chamber.\u00a0 I think this is one of the smaller chambers I have seen on a tenor mouthpiece.\u00a0 It looks to be slightly smaller than a Selmer Soloist to my eye.\u00a0 The transition from the baffle into the chamber has a Berg Larsen type scoop to it.\u00a0 The sidewalls are straight and angled slightly inwards as they move towards the small chamber.\u00a0 The effect of a smaller chamber like this can make the sound more powerful and brighter than a bigger chamber as the air flow is “squeezed” through the chamber.\u00a0 My experience with Soloists and other mouthpieces with these smaller chambers is that they can play nice and dark with less airflow but when you push more air through the mouthpiece they can get much brighter and louder.\u00a0 They usual don’t have a big spread sound but more of a focused sound with a tight core to it.<\/p>\n

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Absolute “Tenorer” Tenor Saxophone Mouthpiece<\/strong><\/p>\n

The tip opening on this mouthpiece is a 7 which is slightly smaller than I usually like.\u00a0 A Rigotti Gold 3 Medium reed played perfectly on it for me.\u00a0 The diameter of the body is slightly smaller than a typical hard rubber Otto Link sized body.\u00a0 A Vandoren Optimum ligature fit perfectly on it as they are made for hard rubber Vandoren mouthpieces which are also slightly smaller in diameter than Otto Links.<\/p>\n

The length of the mouthpiece is longer than an Otto Link which I like because the smaller chamber would typically make the mouthpiece sit further out on the cork to play in tune.\u00a0 With the added length of the mouthpiece it sits where all my other tenor mouthpieces usually do on the cork.<\/p>\n

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The tone of the Absolute “Tenorer” was focused and sweet to me.\u00a0 It also had a dryness to the tone.\u00a0 The notes seemed very locked in to me and the intonation was excellent.\u00a0 The altissimo was very easy to play.\u00a0 It was very even throughout the range of the horn.\u00a0 At 1:06 on the clip you can hear how it gets brighter when I push it a little more.\u00a0 Then at 1:43 until the end you can hear how it darkens down when I back off a bit.
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Absolute “Tenorer” Tenor Saxophone Mouthpiece<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you are interested in the Absolute “Tenorer” tenor saxophone mouthpiece contact Marco at Absolutesax.com<\/a>. At 147 this is a great price for a nice playing tenor mouthpiece.\u00a0 I would have no problems recommending this mouthpiece for students who need a mouthpiece that they can use for both concert band and jazz band.\u00a0 A 7* or 8 tip opening would probably give some added volume if you needed that also.<\/p>\n

Let me know what you think in the comments below………….Thanks, Steve<\/p>\n

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Today,\u00a0 I am reviewing a mouthpiece made by the Absolute company.\u00a0 These are made in Italy.\u00a0 This model is called the “Tenorer”.\u00a0 There is also a Tenor AL, Tenor ST and a Tenor + model on their website. You can also find all these models for Baritone,Alto and Soprano saxophones as well.\u00a0 The AL model […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":11115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1121,45],"tags":[1092,1093,117,265],"class_list":{"0":"post-11068","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tenor-low-baffle-reviews","8":"category-tenor-mouthpieces","9":"tag-absolute","10":"tag-resin","11":"tag-sax-mouthpiece","12":"tag-tenor-saxophone","13":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}