{"id":467,"date":"2009-08-13T16:32:31","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T21:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/?p=467"},"modified":"2014-01-16T22:50:09","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T03:50:09","slug":"ralph-morgan-refaced-slant-signature-otto-link-alto-mouthpiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/ralph-morgan-refaced-slant-signature-otto-link-alto-mouthpiece\/","title":{"rendered":"Ralph Morgan Refaced-Slant Signature Otto Link Alto Mouthpiece"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is an old slant signature 5* hard rubber link that was refaced by Ralph Morgan.\u00a0 I just bought it and am getting used to it. \u00a0 Ralph opened it up to around a 7 and put a metal band around the shank.\u00a0 When I first got the piece the bore was so small that I couldn’t fit it on my neck (I just put a new cork on).\u00a0 I knew that I would crush my cork just to try a piece out and I wasn’t very happy about it. I decided to take a chance and got a drumstick that just fit into the bore.\u00a0 I wrapped really fine sandpaper around it so it fit snuggly into the bore, inserted it and I turned it a few times.\u00a0 I did this 5 or 6 times each time washing it out and then trying it on the neck. I made sure I didn’t go any further than the mouthpiece would sit on the cork because I didn’t want to enlarge the chamber.\u00a0 At the end it fits perfectly on the cork and I can get it in tune.\u00a0 It plays great on my Reference 54.\u00a0 It’s cool……with a harder reed it gets a kind of Paul Desmond type singing quality to the high notes.\u00a0 I just played it for an hour or two so I’m still getting use to it.\u00a0 It plays very differently than the Freddie Gregory link 7 I have. It doesn’t feel as open as that to me nor as loud but it has a lot of potential I think. Can you tell I’ve been practicing my diminished scales lately?<\/p>\n

This is an old slant signature 5* hard rubber link that was refaced by Ralph Morgan.\u00a0 I just bought it and am getting used to it. \u00a0 Ralph opened it up to around a 7 and put a metal band around the shank.\u00a0 When I first got the piece the bore was so small that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"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":[1124,46],"tags":[156,154,155],"class_list":{"0":"post-467","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-alto-low-baffle-reviews","7":"category-alto-mouthpieces","8":"tag-otto-link","9":"tag-ralph-morgan","10":"tag-slant-signature","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467","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=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}