{"id":1538,"date":"2010-09-02T09:50:45","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T14:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/?p=1538"},"modified":"2024-09-07T17:56:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-07T21:56:12","slug":"theo-wanne-hard-rubber-gaia-tenor-saxophone-mouthpiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/theo-wanne-hard-rubber-gaia-tenor-saxophone-mouthpiece\/","title":{"rendered":"Theo Wanne Hard Rubber 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.\u00a0 This is a hard rubber version of the Gaia tenor saxophone mouthpiece. The Gaia is said to be a run at the florida link type concept. It has a medium baffle that does indeed remind me of my florida links. The difference hear is in the chamber. The Gaia looks to have a much larger chamber than the florida links I have owned. It looks closer in size to my NY links. This mouthpiece is a .110 tip opening\u00a0 (8).\u00a0\u00a0 I found this to be one of the nicest darker mouthpieces I have tried.\u00a0 It had a nice fat dark sound that was lush sounding.\u00a0 The edges of the tone seemed to have a rounded quality to them.\u00a0 I noticed this with the metal Gaia I tried also.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/GaiaHRTenorTop.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/easygallery\/88888894\/GaiaHRTenorTop.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/GaiaHRTenorBaffle.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/easygallery\/88888894\/GaiaHRTenorBaffle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Theo Wanne Hard Rubber\u00a0 Gaia Tenor Saxophone Mouthpiece<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This Gaia tenor mouthpiece had some nice volume to it without getting brighter.\u00a0 Many mouthpieces that can play really loud get increasingly brighter as you blow.\u00a0 That can be a good thing if you like that or a bad thing if you don&#8217;t.\u00a0 To me, this mouthpiece could get quite loud and full sounding but still retained that dark robust sound.\u00a0 I really loved that.\u00a0 The low notes were full and round sounding and sounded amazing when I sub-toned. Nice and lush sounding like I like them.\u00a0 The high notes were fat and full sounding.\u00a0 I could imagine playing classical music with this piece because it sounded so pretty to me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The other thing that struck me about this mouthpiece, as well as the other Gaia&#8217;s I have tried, is how smooth the transition between notes are.\u00a0 Playing scales and fast runs is as smooth as butter and the notes are amazingly even through out the range of the horn.\u00a0 That type of response just makes me want to play faster and faster.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Like all of Theo Wanne&#8217;s mouthpieces, this one looked great and was a joy to play.\u00a0 Thank you so much to Theo and his co-workers over there at Theo Wanne mouthpieces for letting me review all of these great mouthpieces. \u00a0 For more information on the Gaia tenor sax mouthpiece visit <a href=\"https:\/\/theowanne.com\/r?id=6bum7b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.theowanne.com <\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Listen to the sound clip below and let me know what you think.\u00a0 Enjoy!<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1538-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/images\/mp3\/HR%20Gaia%20Tenor%208.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/images\/mp3\/HR%20Gaia%20Tenor%208.mp3\">https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/images\/mp3\/HR%20Gaia%20Tenor%208.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another Theo Wanne tenor saxophone mouthpiece for you to check out.\u00a0 This is a hard rubber version of the Gaia tenor saxophone mouthpiece. The Gaia is said to be a run at the florida link type concept. It has a medium baffle that does indeed remind me of my florida links. The difference hear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":14459,"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":[100,129,239,72,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-1538","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","10":"tag-hard-rubber","11":"tag-saxophone-mouthpiece","12":"tag-tenor-sax","13":"tag-theo-wanne","14":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538","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=1538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}