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<\/a><\/p>\nD&S Brecker II Tenor Saxophone Mouthpiece<\/strong><\/p>\n Donghee answered my second question about how long he had been making mouthpieces with this response:<\/p>\n D&S Brecker II Tenor Saxophone Mouthpiece<\/strong><\/p>\n I have to admit,\u00a0 I have had these mouthpieces sitting on my shelf since June.\u00a0 The reason I haven’t done a review sooner is that after doing some research, I realized that I couldn’t find D&S Saxophone Mouthpieces on the internet, they don’t have a website and they didn’t have a Facebook page.\u00a0 All I had was an email address and phone number.\u00a0 \u00a0Since that time, Donghee now has a Facebook page although it is very minimal with just a bad picture of a list of his mouthpiece models on it.\u00a0 I don’t see any prices so I don’t even know how much these go for either.<\/p>\n Even though I don’t think D&S is optimally setup for modern internet consumers I thought it best to go ahead with the reviews.\u00a0 If they get more of a web presence in the future at least you would have heard of them and have some knowledge of Donghee Cho and his products.<\/p>\n D&S Brecker II Tenor Saxophone Mouthpiece<\/strong><\/p>\n Donghee sent me five mouthpieces in a couple of different shipments.\u00a0 I have three metal tenor mouthpieces and two metal alto sax mouthpieces.\u00a0 The mouthpieces have high baffles in general.\u00a0 The mouthpiece I am reviewing today is the Brecker II and has a .110 tip opening.<\/p>\n The rails, tip and baffle all look great to the eye.\u00a0 The tip matches my Rigotti reeds nicely.\u00a0 It has a high baffle to it.<\/p>\n These saxophone mouthpieces all come in a plastic tube with a silver mouthpiece cap and ligature.\u00a0 The shape and size of the D&S Brecker II is very similar to the size of a typical Guardala sax mouthpiece.\u00a0 It even has a pink bite plate like the old original Guardala’s used to have.\u00a0 I used a silver Selmer 402 metal alto ligature on it which is what I would use on a Guardala mouthpiece and it fit perfectly.<\/p>\n I emailed Donghee and asked him if these were exact replicas of guardala mouthpieces and he responded:<\/p>\n The one negative that I have with the similarity to the Guardala size is that the mouthpiece is a tiny bit narrower than a reed.\u00a0 I have experienced this in the past with some Guardala’s I have owned. A very small part of each side of the reed hangs over each side of the mouthpiece table.\u00a0 I’m not sure exactly why I don’t like this but in my mind it seems like the table should be equally as wide as the reed.\u00a0 I guess it is just a personal thing as the mouthpiece played well and got good suction on the suction test.\u00a0 It just felt a bit strange to me.<\/p>\n D&S Brecker II Tenor Saxophone Mouthpiece<\/strong><\/p>\n I used a Rigotti Gold 2 1\/2 Medium reed on the sample recording below which worked well with this .110 tip opening.\u00a0 The mouthpiece has a powerful core sound to it with brightness and edge when played at full throttle.\u00a0 It does tend to remind me of a Michael Brecker type tone in it’s brightness and solid core to the sound.<\/p>\n I did experience moments where I would get a squeek or chirp while playing the Brecker II at the beginning.\u00a0 I was puzzled by those and emailed Donghee to ask him what the facing curve length was.\u00a0 He said it was a 27 mm length facing curve.\u00a0This is quite a bit longer than I am accustomed to playing as usually I don’t go longer than 25 mm.<\/p>\n I tried taking a little bit more mouthpiece and didn’t get anymore of those squeaks or chirps.\u00a0 I think it was a matter of me setting my embouchure as if I was playing a mouthpiece with a 24-25 mm facing curve.\u00a0 Once I adjusted slightly to the longer facing and played it for a little bit the problem seemed to resolve itself.<\/p>\n The intonation was good and I thought it was pretty even up and down the horn.\u00a0 Although, the Brecker II has a brighter tone to it I didn’t feel like it was over the top bright and obnoxious.\u00a0 It has tons of power to give but it felt like I could control it easily.\u00a0 At medium volumes it actually seems pretty balanced between dark and bright to me.<\/p>\n D&S Brecker II Tenor Saxophone Mouthpiece<\/strong><\/p>\n I’ve provided two samples of the same clip below. \u00a0One is a clip with added reverb and the other is a dry clip in a moderate sized room. \u00a0I think it’s important to add the reverb clip just so people can get a sense of what the sound is like with a little bit of that added affect since\u00a0the added reverb tends to soften the brightness and edge a little bit.<\/p>\n D&S Brecker II Tenor Sax Mouthpiece<\/strong><\/p>\n If you liked the D&S Brecker II tenor saxophone mouthpiece reviewed above you can contact Donghee to order one by email at dssax.mouthpiece@gmail.com or visit Facebook\u00a0@\u00a0https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DSSaxophone<\/a>\u00a0or instagram @\u00a0https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ds.sax.mouthpiece\/<\/a>.\u00a0 The next tenor saxophone mouthpieces I am reviewing is the Brecker III model<\/a> which has a longer baffle similar to a Guaradala Super King mouthpiece.\u00a0 Stay tuned……….<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n