{"id":1388,"date":"2010-06-21T10:11:05","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T15:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/?p=1388"},"modified":"2014-01-16T10:58:33","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T15:58:33","slug":"john-thomas-tenor-saxophone-mouthpiece-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/john-thomas-tenor-saxophone-mouthpiece-review\/","title":{"rendered":"John Thomas Tenor Saxophone Mouthpiece Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here we have a John Thomas tenor saxophone mouthpiece.\u00a0 I actually played this about a year ago but the recording has been sitting on my computer since.\u00a0 I totally forgot about it until this morning when I read a thread on &#8220;Sax on the Web&#8221; asking about\u00a0 John Thomas and his mouthpiece work.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/JohnThomas.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0pt none; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/easygallery\/88888894\/JohnThomas.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This mouthpiece is a .115 tip opening and is a bit larger than I usually prefer.\u00a0\u00a0 It had a big robust sound to it that leaned towards the brighter side of the tonal spectrum in my opinion.\u00a0 Because of the larger tip opening, I found that I could blow tons of air through this mouthpiece.\u00a0 It is one of the louder mouthpieces i have played on my website.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t feel totally comfortable with the larger tip so I put the recording in a file on my computer and forgot about it.\u00a0 I just listened to it this morning though and think you can get a good idea of the sound of the mouthpiece from it.<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in John&#8217;s mouthpieces you can contact him on his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomaswoodwinds.com\/www.thomaswoodwinds.com\/Saxophone_Mouthpieces.html\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>.\u00a0 I hope in the future I can get a chance to try a .105-.110 tip which is more to my liking.\u00a0 Let me know what you think.\u00a0\u00a0 Steve<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1388-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/images\/mp3\/John%20Thomas.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/images\/mp3\/John%20Thomas.mp3\">https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/images\/mp3\/John%20Thomas.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we have a John Thomas tenor saxophone mouthpiece.\u00a0 I actually played this about a year ago but the recording has been sitting on my computer since.\u00a0 I totally forgot about it until this morning when I read a thread on &#8220;Sax on the Web&#8221; asking about\u00a0 John Thomas and his mouthpiece work. This mouthpiece [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":14499,"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":[45],"tags":[347,117,68,265],"class_list":{"0":"post-1388","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tenor-mouthpieces","8":"tag-john-thomas","9":"tag-sax-mouthpiece","10":"tag-tenor-mouthpiece","11":"tag-tenor-saxophone","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388","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=1388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}