{"id":16321,"date":"2014-03-14T14:12:16","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T19:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/?p=16321"},"modified":"2014-03-14T14:12:16","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T19:12:16","slug":"morgan-fry-ebonite-tenor-saxophone-mouthpiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/morgan-fry-ebonite-tenor-saxophone-mouthpiece\/","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Fry Ebonite Tenor Saxophone Mouthpiece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Today, I am reviewing another mouthpiece made by Morgan Fry. Morgan Fry is a great mouthpiece maker and refacer in England.\u00a0 I have reviewed some of his mouthpieces in the past and had him do some refacing work for me.\u00a0 I have always been impressed with his work and craftsmanship. If you do a search for Morgan Fry in the &#8220;search&#8221; bar on the top right of the site you can find some of his other mouthpieces I have reviewed. The mouthpiece I am reviewing today is the ebonite 7* tenor saxophone model.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/MFEboniteTenorTop.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/MFEboniteTenorTop.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/a><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Morgan Fry Ebonite Tenor Saxophone Mouthpiece<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The outside of the Morgan Fry Ebonite mouthpiece is very cool looking. It has a black and gold marble look to it with a beautiful silver band around the shank. MF is engraved in white on the top of the mouthpiece and 7* is stenciled in on the bottom of the table.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The rails of the mouthpiece look to be very even and the tip rail is symmetric and perfect looking to the eye. The baffle is what I would call a medium high baffle (between a medium and high baffle). It has scooped side walls that scoop out to a medium large sized chamber. The chamber looks larger in size than an Otto Link Slant Signature chamber and a new Early Babbitt Otto Link chamber as I compare them side by side.\u00a0 The floor of the chamber looks lower to me than those Otto Links.\u00a0 As the baffle slopes down into the chamber it is not straight but has more of a slightly scooped shape as you can see in the pictures below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/MFEboniteTenorTable.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/MFEboniteTenorTable.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Morgan Fry Ebonite Tenor Saxophone Mouthpiece<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Morgan Fry Ebonite tenor mouthpiece was very easy to play and was extremely reed friendly. I used a Rico Select Jazz 3 medium unfiled reed with a Vandoren Optimum ligature on the clip below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/MFEboniteTenorBaffle.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/MFEboniteTenorBaffle.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Morgan Fry Ebonite Tenor Saxophone Mouthpiece<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I found this tenor mouthpiece to have a tone that leaned slightly to the brighter side of things and was nice and focused.\u00a0 The medium high baffle gave it some nice power and cut when I pushed it.\u00a0 I found that the response of this mouthpiece was immediate and allowed me to really express myself fully.\u00a0 The low end had a thick sound full of character and the high end was clear and full.\u00a0 The intonation was very good also.\u00a0 With a softer and brighter reed like a Rigotti Gold 3 light or even 3 medium the tone was a bit brighter.\u00a0 I preferred the Rico reeds for this clip.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/MFEboniteTenorChamber.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/MFEboniteTenorChamber.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Morgan Fry Ebonite Tenor Saxophone Mouthpiece<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Morgan Fry Ebonite Tenor Mouthpiece was great to play.\u00a0 If you like the sound of the clip below and the mouthpiece catches your interest then give it a try. You can contact Morgan Fry on his website at <a href=\"http:\/\/morganfrymouthpieces.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">morganfrymouthpieces.com<\/a>. Tell him Steve sent you&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Let me know what you think in the comments below. Thanks, Steve<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-16321-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/MFEboniteTenor3.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/MFEboniteTenor3.mp3\">https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/MFEboniteTenor3.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><strong>Morgan Fry Ebonite Tenor Saxophone Mouthpiece<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I am reviewing another mouthpiece made by Morgan Fry. Morgan Fry is a great mouthpiece maker and refacer in England.\u00a0 I have reviewed some of his mouthpieces in the past and had him do some refacing work for me.\u00a0 I have always been impressed with his work and craftsmanship. 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