{"id":4677,"date":"2011-05-01T16:13:40","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T21:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/?p=4677"},"modified":"2014-01-16T15:01:23","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T20:01:23","slug":"jon-van-wie-meyer-tenor-saxophone-mouthpiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/jon-van-wie-meyer-tenor-saxophone-mouthpiece\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Van Wie Meyer Tenor Saxophone Mouthpiece"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a modern Meyer tenor saxophone mouthpiece that I recently bought.\u00a0 This one is a 7 that was refaced by the late great Jon Van Wie to a .105 tip opening.\u00a0 I knew that if Jon Van Wie had refaced it then it would be a great example of what a Meyer could do.\u00a0 I was very curious to try this mouthpiece because I have never tried a Meyer on tenor before.\u00a0 Of course, Meyer is a big name when it comes to alto players but I have never met a tenor player who played a Meyer and was curious to see what it played like.<\/p>\n

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Jon Van Wie Refaced Meyer Tenor Sax Mouthpiece
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As you can see from the pictures, this mouthpiece is in great shape.\u00a0 The tip, rails and table all look perfect to the eye.\u00a0 The mouthpiece has a nice high rollover baffle on it.\u00a0 The chamber is more of a medium or small size.\u00a0 I’m not sure how Meyer would rank it but if you compare the bottom picture to an Otto Link chamber this one is quite small in comparison.<\/p>\n

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The mouthpiece played great.\u00a0 The Rigotti 3 Light played very easily.\u00a0 The bottom end of the horn was nice and lush sounding. The smaller chamber made it more focused sounding then most Otto Link mouthpieces I have tried.\u00a0 It also required a lot less air for me to get a nice sound out of\u00a0 than a Otto Link would.<\/p>\n

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The altissimo was much easier to hit than most large chambered mouthpieces I have played.\u00a0 The one phrase that came to mind while I was playing this mouthpiece was “smooth as butter”.\u00a0 The tone seemed almost creamy to me and when I played fast patterns it was so even and smooth that it was a delight to play.\u00a0 With all that being said,\u00a0 I don’t think it had as big a sound as I can get on a link but it was plenty loud when I pushed it.\u00a0 It is more focused sounding and a Link is more spread in comparison.<\/p>\n

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Jon Van Wie Refaced Meyer Tenor Sax Mouthpiece<\/strong><\/p>\n

This would be another great choice for a player looking for a mouthpiece to do it all.\u00a0 If you lay back on it you get a beautiful focused straight ahead sound and if you put some air through you can easily get a brighter R&B sound from it.\u00a0 I don’t know how this compares to a average un-refaced Meyer but this one played terrific.\u00a0 Let me know if you have any thoughts or comments. \u00a0 \u00a0 Steve<\/p>\n

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This is a modern Meyer tenor saxophone mouthpiece that I recently bought.\u00a0 This one is a 7 that was refaced by the late great Jon Van Wie to a .105 tip opening.\u00a0 I knew that if Jon Van Wie had refaced it then it would be a great example of what a Meyer could do.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":14564,"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":[169,595,158,239,72],"class_list":{"0":"post-4677","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-jon-van-wie","10":"tag-jvw-refaced","11":"tag-meyer","12":"tag-saxophone-mouthpiece","13":"tag-tenor-sax","14":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4677","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=4677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}