{"id":198,"date":"2009-07-27T15:04:34","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T20:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/&#038;p=198"},"modified":"2024-09-07T18:03:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-07T22:03:07","slug":"theo-wanne-gaia-7-tenor-mouthpiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/theo-wanne-gaia-7-tenor-mouthpiece\/","title":{"rendered":"Theo Wanne Gaia 7* Tenor Mouthpiece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This is a new Theo Wanne mouthpiece called the Gaia.\u00a0 He advertises this on <a href=\"https:\/\/theowanne.com\/r?id=6bum7b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.theowanne.com\/ <\/a>as being close to a Florida Link type of sound.\u00a0 I have to say that out of the Theo Wanne pieces I have played so far this is my favorite. The higher baffle Wanne mouthpieces were too bright for what I like and the Parvati was too dark and lacked the power and edge I like in a mouthpiece.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/gaia1.JPG\" rel=\"shadowbox\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0pt none; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/easygallery\/88888894\/gaia1.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/gaia2.JPG\" rel=\"shadowbox\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/easygallery\/88888894\/gaia2.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This Gaia mouthpiece is perfect for me. It has a\u00a0 nice fat lush tone to it but with a nice balance of highs and lows in the sound. The sound is different than other pieces I have tried. It&#8217;s hard to explain, it&#8217;s just fat and round sounding to me.\u00a0 I played this for a week straight and was so close to getting it but I can&#8217;t afford it at this time so I had to send it back.\u00a0 I am really hoping to get one of these at a later date&#8230;&#8230;As usual, the workmanship on this piece is as perfect as you can get.\u00a0 It has a medium rollover baffle that opens up at the bottom into a pretty large chamber. It felt like the baffle gave the piece a real nice focus and kick to it and then the large chamber helped to fatten up the core sound. I used a Vandoren Java 3 on this piece and every reed I tried on it played very good. I did notice a huge difference in the sound when I moved the ligature around on the mouthpiece. When I moved it towards the tip of the mouthpiece it seemed to give the sound more of a focused core. When I moved it back towards the end of the piece it seemed to get a bigger more spread sound to it. I sent this piece back today.\u00a0 I will\u00a0 really miss this one. \u00a0 Listen&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<h4><code><\/code><\/h4>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-198-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/images\/mp3\/gaia.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/images\/mp3\/gaia.mp3\">https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/images\/mp3\/gaia.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<h4><code><\/code><\/h4>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/gaia3.JPG\" rel=\"shadowbox\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0pt none; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/easygallery\/88888894\/gaia3.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a new Theo Wanne mouthpiece called the Gaia.\u00a0 He advertises this on http:\/\/www.theowanne.com\/ as being close to a Florida Link type of sound.\u00a0 I have to say that out of the Theo Wanne pieces I have played so far this is my favorite. The higher baffle Wanne mouthpieces were too bright for what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":14418,"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":[1120,45],"tags":[100,68,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-198","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-tenor-mouthpiece","11":"tag-theo-wanne","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","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=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}