{"id":1533,"date":"2010-08-03T18:13:04","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T23:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/?p=1533"},"modified":"2021-10-12T21:09:09","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T01:09:09","slug":"theo-wanne-wood-gaia-tenor-saxophone-mouthpiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/theo-wanne-wood-gaia-tenor-saxophone-mouthpiece\/","title":{"rendered":"Theo Wanne Wood Gaia 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. \u00a0 This is a wood version of the Gaia tenor saxophone mouthpiece. The Gaia is said to be a run at the florida link type concept. \u00a0 It has a medium baffle that does indeed remind me of my florida links.\u00a0 The difference hear is in the chamber. The Gaia looks to have a much larger chamber than the florida links I have owned.\u00a0 It looks closer in size to my NY links.\u00a0 This mouthpiece is a .110 tip opening. I was hoping for a .105 tip as that is what I liked the best when I tried the metal Gaia out. This tip feels a little larger than I normally like but it was still easy to play.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/TWWoodGaiaTenor.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/easygallery\/88888894\/TWWoodGaiaTenor.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/TWWoodGaiaTenor2.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/easygallery\/88888894\/TWWoodGaiaTenor2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Theo Wanne Wood Gaia 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. This one is made out of a wood compound that is a mix of wood and resin.\u00a0 It is advertised as never warping or cracking which is a great plus in my book. It\u00a0 has the logo and &#8220;Gaia&#8221; engraved on it in gold as well as a gold band around the end of the shank.\u00a0 It also comes with a gold &#8220;enlightened&#8221; ligature.\u00a0\u00a0 The rails and tip are perfect and even. 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 Gaia has a medium sound that is right in the middle of bright to dark.\u00a0 I think it leans a little bit towards the bright side of things.\u00a0 I found this mouthpiece to be vibrant and the tone was nice and thick sounding. The wood material seems to give it a little more textured sound that to me adds character to the tone.\u00a0 At times i even felt like the tone was a little smokey sounding. \u00a0 Up high the notes were full sounding as was the low end. The .110 tip opening felt a little too big for my tastes. 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 Gaia was easy to play for me. \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.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure it would be my choice for a loud funk gig\u00a0 but it does have a beautiful lush sound to it that would be perfect for some straight ahead gigs.\u00a0 I did find it louder playing than the Ambika.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This is another great mouthpiece by Theo WanneFor more information on the Gaia tenor sax mouthpiece visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theowanne.com\/?affiliate_id=8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.theowanne.com <\/a>.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1533-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/images\/mp3\/TW%20Gaia%20Wood%20Tenor.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/images\/mp3\/TW%20Gaia%20Wood%20Tenor.mp3\">https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/images\/mp3\/TW%20Gaia%20Wood%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. \u00a0 This is a wood version of the Gaia tenor saxophone mouthpiece. The Gaia is said to be a run at the florida link [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":14461,"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":[1120,45],"tags":[351,265,99,366],"class_list":{"0":"post-1533","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tenor-medium-baffle-reviews","8":"category-tenor-mouthpieces","9":"tag-gaia-mouthpiece","10":"tag-tenor-saxophone","11":"tag-theo-wanne","12":"tag-wood-mouthpieces","13":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533","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=1533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}