{"id":1529,"date":"2010-08-03T13:55:11","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T18:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/?p=1529"},"modified":"2024-09-07T17:56:45","modified_gmt":"2024-09-07T21:56:45","slug":"theo-wanne-ambika-tenor-saxophone-mouthpiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/theo-wanne-ambika-tenor-saxophone-mouthpiece\/","title":{"rendered":"Theo Wanne Ambika Tenor Saxophone Mouthpiece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here&#8217;s another Theo Wanne tenor saxophone mouthpiece for you to check out. I just received a ton of these and I&#8217;m working my way through them as you might have noticed. This is a hard rubber version of the Ambika mouthpiece.\u00a0 The Ambika is on the darker side of the tone spectrum.\u00a0 It has a lower baffle than the Gaia.\u00a0 This is a .110 tip opening.\u00a0 I was hoping for a .105 tip as that is what I liked the best when I tried the metal Gaia out.\u00a0 This tip\u00a0 feels a little larger than I normally like&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/TWHRAmbika.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/easygallery\/88888894\/TWHRAmbika.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/TWHRAmbika2.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/easygallery\/88888894\/TWHRAmbika2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Theo Wanne\u00a0 Ambika Tenor Saxophone Mouthpiece<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Appearance:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Again, as with all Theo Wanne products, this mouthpiece looks great.\u00a0 This one is made out of hard rubber and has the logo and &#8220;Ambika&#8221; engraved on it in gold.\u00a0 The band around the shank looks to be a black metal.\u00a0 Even the ligature it comes with is black.\u00a0 It looks appropriate for a dark sounding mouthpiece.\u00a0 The rails and tip are perfect and even.\u00a0 The chamber and baffle look as good as it gets.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Tone:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Ambika has a darker sound then the other Theo Wanne mouthpiece I have tried.\u00a0 Sometimes a darker tone can sound almost dead but I found this mouthpiece very vibrant and the tone nice and thick sounding.\u00a0 Up high the notes were full and round but still darker sounding than many other mouthpieces I have tried.\u00a0 The .110 tip opening felt a little too big for my tastes.\u00a0 I would have loved to try this in a .105 tip.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Intonation:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Intonation was great with this mouthpiece and within normal limits.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Control:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Ambika was easy to play for me although I tend to like a mouthpiece that sounds a bit brighter (It might be because of my hearing loss over the years&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.)\u00a0 It played great down low and up into the altissimo and the tone was even up and down the horn.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Volume:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I could get nice and loud with this mouthpiece although because of the darker nature of the tone I think a mouthpiece like this would get lost in the mix of a\u00a0 rock or pop gig.\u00a0 That&#8217;s not it&#8217;s thing.\u00a0 I could easily imagine playing this on a jazz trio gig and filling up the room with a nice lush sound.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This is another great mouthpiece by Theo Wanne.\u00a0 For more information on the Ambika tenor sax mouthpiece visit <a href=\"https:\/\/theowanne.com\/r?id=6bum7b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.theowanne.com <\/a>.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1529-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/images\/mp3\/TW%20Ambika%20HR%20Tenor.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/images\/mp3\/TW%20Ambika%20HR%20Tenor.mp3\">https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/images\/mp3\/TW%20Ambika%20HR%20Tenor.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another Theo Wanne tenor saxophone mouthpiece for you to check out. I just received a ton of these and I&#8217;m working my way through them as you might have noticed. This is a hard rubber version of the Ambika mouthpiece.\u00a0 The Ambika is on the darker side of the tone spectrum.\u00a0 It has a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":14463,"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":"content-sidebar","footnotes":""},"categories":[1121,45],"tags":[365,265,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-1529","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-ambika-tenor-mouthpiece","10":"tag-tenor-saxophone","11":"tag-theo-wanne","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529","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=1529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}