{"id":1592,"date":"2010-11-24T22:56:44","date_gmt":"2010-11-25T03:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/?p=1592"},"modified":"2014-01-16T02:32:54","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T07:32:54","slug":"drake-son-of-slant-soprano-saxophone-mouthpiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/drake-son-of-slant-soprano-saxophone-mouthpiece\/","title":{"rendered":"Drake Son of Slant Soprano Saxophone Mouthpiece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a Drake vintage resin soprano mouthpiece. It is called the &#8220;Son of Slant&#8221; in reference to a vintage Otto Link Slant soprano mouthpiece.\u00a0 Here is the description from the Drake website of the mouthpiece:<\/p>\n<p><span>The design of this mouthpiece has been modeled after the Otto Link Slant model, with a few modifications to help facilitate better stability of pitch and greater projection. \u00a0The floor slope has been raised and extended. Amazing warmth and depth to the tone with a great expressive range. \u00a0Featuring beautifully under cut walls and a chamber dimension larger than the shank diameter with a carefully contoured roll over baffle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/SOSSoprano.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/easygallery\/88888894\/SOSSoprano.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/SOSSopranoBaffle.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/easygallery\/88888894\/SOSSopranoBaffle.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/SOSSopranoFront.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/easygallery\/88888894\/SOSSopranoFront.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Drake Son of Slant Soprano Saxophone Mouthpiece<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This mouthpiece has a .065 tip opening which is what I prefer on soprano.\u00a0 It has a pretty large chamber in it.\u00a0 Larger than most of the soprano mouthpiece I have tried.\u00a0 The only mouthpiece I have tried with a bigger chamber was a Morgan 6LC mouthpiece that I tried once. The bigger chamber gives it a bigger fatter sound in my opinion.\u00a0 Not bright at all, more on the dark side of things in my opinion.\u00a0 At the same time it has a nice ring to the tone that I really enjoyed.\u00a0 If I had to pick one word to sum up the sound of this mouthpiece it would be &#8220;sweet&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0 Check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drakemouthpieces.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Drake website<\/a> for more info on this soprano mouthpiece.\u00a0\u00a0 Let me know what you think.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Steve<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1592-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/images\/mp3\/Drake%20SOL%20Soprano.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/images\/mp3\/Drake%20SOL%20Soprano.mp3\">https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/images\/mp3\/Drake%20SOL%20Soprano.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a Drake vintage resin soprano mouthpiece. It is called the &#8220;Son of Slant&#8221; in reference to a vintage Otto Link Slant soprano mouthpiece.\u00a0 Here is the description from the Drake website of the mouthpiece: The design of this mouthpiece has been modeled after the Otto Link Slant model, with a few modifications to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":14449,"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":[235],"tags":[327,328,237,329],"class_list":{"0":"post-1592","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soprano-mouthpiece-reviews","8":"tag-drake-mouthpieces","9":"tag-son-of-slant","10":"tag-soprano-saxophone","11":"tag-vintage-resin","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592","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=1592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}