{"id":1417,"date":"2010-07-05T12:09:13","date_gmt":"2010-07-05T17:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/?p=1417"},"modified":"2014-01-16T22:35:45","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T03:35:45","slug":"warburton-alto-saxophone-mouthpiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/warburton-alto-saxophone-mouthpiece\/","title":{"rendered":"Warburton Alto Saxophone Mouthpiece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This is a new Warburton alto saxophone mouthpiece.\u00a0 These are made by Eric Falcon who is a top notch mouthpiece refacer.\u00a0 This mouthpiece has an .080 tip opening.\u00a0 I consider it to have a brighter sound but still fat sounding.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a bit fatter sounding than the PT Meyer that I put up yesterday.\u00a0 There is tons of volume that I could get out of this mouthpiece.\u00a0 The altissimo was easy to get also.\u00a0 In this clip I am just playing around with a simple Bb blues and using a bunch of lines from my &#8220;Mastering the Dominant Bebop Scale &#8221; book.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/WarburtonAltoTop.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0pt none; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/easygallery\/88888894\/WarburtonAltoTop.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/WarburtonAltoBottom.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/easygallery\/88888894\/WarburtonAltoBottom.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/WarburtonAltoSide.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0pt none; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/easygallery\/88888894\/WarburtonAltoSide.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/WarburtonAltoChamber.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/easygallery\/88888894\/WarburtonAltoChamber.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Warburton Alto Saxophone Mouthpiece<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Appearance:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The tip and rails of this mouthpiece are great. \u00a0 The arc of the tip is a little different than my Java reeds but it is very close.\u00a0 It makes no difference in playablity that I can notice.\u00a0 The chamber is nice, smooth and looks to be very symmetrical and balanced.\u00a0 The outside of the mouthpiece is beautiful and the gold band around the shank is a nice touch.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Tone:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Beautiful brighter tone. Very even up and down the horn . Easy to sub-tone down low. The notes have a nice focus to them but still have a nice round sound to them. The high notes had a tendency to get overly bright but once I got use to the piece it was easy to control.\u00a0 I could morph into a Sanborn type sound pretty easily up high if I wanted to.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Intonation:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Intonation was very good on this piece and I had no problems playing it..<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Control:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Easy mouthpiece to control from the bottom to the top of the horn.\u00a0 At first I felt like the high end was getting away from me but once I fattened up my lower lip and took a little more mouthpiece the high notes were great.\u00a0 Easy piece to bend notes with.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Volume:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This mouthpiece had some great volume to it when I really blew.\u00a0 It got a tad brighter but never lost it&#8217;s fat sound.\u00a0 Down low it was very focused and I tended to want to sub-tone more down there to fatten it up a bit.\u00a0\u00a0 It was easy to play from ppp-FFF.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Great Job Eric!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1417-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/images\/mp3\/WarburtonAlto.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/images\/mp3\/WarburtonAlto.mp3\">https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/images\/mp3\/WarburtonAlto.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a new Warburton alto saxophone mouthpiece.\u00a0 These are made by Eric Falcon who is a top notch mouthpiece refacer.\u00a0 This mouthpiece has an .080 tip opening.\u00a0 I consider it to have a brighter sound but still fat sounding.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a bit fatter sounding than the PT Meyer that I put up yesterday.\u00a0 There [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":14495,"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":[1123,46],"tags":[143,345,350],"class_list":{"0":"post-1417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-alto-medium-baffle-reviews","8":"category-alto-mouthpieces","9":"tag-alto-mouthpiece","10":"tag-eric-falcon","11":"tag-warburton-mouthpieces","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417","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=1417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}