{"id":1308,"date":"2010-04-16T10:23:41","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T15:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/?p=1308"},"modified":"2014-01-16T22:37:24","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T03:37:24","slug":"selmer-long-shank-soloist-tenor-mouthpiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/selmer-long-shank-soloist-tenor-mouthpiece\/","title":{"rendered":"Selmer Long Shank Soloist Tenor Mouthpiece"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a Vintage Selmer Long Shank Soloist Tenor Mouthpiece that was originally a C*.\u00a0 This mouthpiece has been refaced to a .105 tip opening by Brian Powell.\u00a0 I have been wanting to try one of these ever since I tried a Selmer short shank soloist about a year ago.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 The long shank model fixes that problem and gives me a very similar sound…………<\/p>\n

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As you can see from the pictures the chamber of this mouthpiece has a horseshoe shape to it.\u00a0 This chamber gives it a unique sound in my opinion.\u00a0 The baffle is quite low in comparison to other mouthpieces I have tried.\u00a0 Usually, the lower the baffle the darker the mouthpiece.\u00a0 These Soloists are unique in that the low baffle gives them a darker sound but\u00a0 the smaller horseshoe chamber gives them a focused and more powerful sound.\u00a0 More focused than a wide open otto link type chamber might give with a low baffle.\u00a0 It’s interesting to note the affect of the baffle and chamber combinations………..a higher baffle will speed up the air flow and make the mouthpiece brighter and louder but a smaller chamber will do this also by squeezing the air through a smaller hole.\u00a0 It’s very interesting to me because the brights of a smaller chamber are quite different then the brights of a raised baffle.\u00a0 Great players that play or have played soloists are Joe Henderson, Rich Perry,\u00a0 and Kenny Garrett on alto………….. Let me know what you think. Steve<\/p>\n

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This is a Vintage Selmer Long Shank Soloist Tenor Mouthpiece that was originally a C*.\u00a0 This mouthpiece has been refaced to a .105 tip opening by Brian Powell.\u00a0 I have been wanting to try one of these ever since I tried a Selmer short shank soloist about a year ago.\u00a0 I loved the short shank […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":14517,"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":[317,186,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-1308","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-long-shank","10":"tag-selmer-soloist","11":"tag-tenor-mouthpiece","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308","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=1308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}