{"id":4910,"date":"2011-08-15T13:01:03","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T18:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/?p=4910"},"modified":"2014-01-16T14:59:41","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T19:59:41","slug":"ishimori-woodstone-7-hard-rubber-tenor-sax-mouthpiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/ishimori-woodstone-7-hard-rubber-tenor-sax-mouthpiece\/","title":{"rendered":"Ishimori Woodstone 7* Hard Rubber Tenor Sax Mouthpiece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I have an Ishimori Woodstone hard rubber tenor sax mouthpiece to review and play for you today. This is a 7* tip opening (.105) hard rubber mouthpiece. I have been eagerly wanting to play one of these Ishimori mouthpieces for quite a while.\u00a0 I reviewed an 8 tip last week and wanted to try a 7* to see how it compared.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/IshimoriHRTenor.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/easygallery\/88888894\/IshimoriHRTenor.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Ishimori Woodstone 7* Hard Rubber Tenor Mouthpiece<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Over the past few months, I have heard of Ishimori Woodstone mouthpieces from a number of players on the web. They were all raving about how good these mouthpieces were which really peaked my curiosity. I had a problem though, when I searched around for these mouthpieces I couldn&#8217;t find them anywhere except for the Ishimori site in Japan and the whole site was in Japanese. (I am not fluent in Japanese) I gave up after that but then a month later I heard another player raving about them again. This time I decided to try contacting Ishimori directly through their website. I sent them an email asking about their mouthpieces and a few days later received a courteous response from Norikiyo Yaguchi who handles Overseas transactions for Mr. Ishimori. He was nice enough to send me 5 mouthpieces to review- 2 alto, 2 tenor and one soprano mouthpiece.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This tenor sax mouthpiece is beautiful. It has a perfect looking facing curve and tip. The baffle is medium low and slopes down to a medium to large sized chamber. The shape of the baffle is similar to the classic Otto Link Slant Signature mouthpieces that play so great. The baffle slides smoothly and evenly down into the chamber and there&#8217;s not an edge or blemish anywhere. Absolutely perfect looking.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/IshimoriHRTenorBaffle.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/easygallery\/88888894\/IshimoriHRTenorBaffle.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0The sound of this Ishimori 7* is dark and rich sounding to my ears. The tone seems to be more compact and thicker than the 8 I tried last week.\u00a0\u00a0 It has a sweetness to the sound that I really liked.\u00a0 The subtone was beautiful sounding and was very easy to attain.\u00a0 To me it has that dark rich sound that is a classic tenor sound. (Think Hank Mobley)\u00a0 Compared to the .110 tip Ishimori I reviewed last week I felt like this .105 and a tighter more compact sound to it.\u00a0 I also felt like it was a bit darker than the .110.\u00a0 Now when I go back and listen to that clip I feel like the .110 has more of a spread and hollow sound compared to this .105.\u00a0 Listen to both clips and I think you can hear what I&#8217;m talking about.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/IshimoriHRTenorTip.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/easygallery\/88888894\/IshimoriHRTenorTip.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Ishimori Woodstone 7* Hard Rubber Tenor Mouthpiece<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I used a Woodstone #2 1\/2 reed on it which was perfect for this mouthpiece. As you listen to the clip below, I think you can hear the rich thick sound this piece has. This would be a perfect mouthpiece for those of you who like that &#8220;slant&#8221; link type sound and want to sound great on a jazz set.\u00a0 It&#8217;s on the darker side of things but at the same time it is very rich sounding which I really loved.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The intonation was also great on this mouthpiece as it has been on every Ishimori mouthpiece I have tried so far.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><\/strong>Every mouthpiece and reed that I have received from the Ishimori company has been perfect. They pay attention to the smallest details and it is obvious when you see and play their products. Believe it or not, I have played about 40 of their Woodstone reeds and haven&#8217;t found a bad one yet. They all played great right out of the box!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Let me know what you think in the comments below. Thanks, Steve<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ishimori Woodstone 7* Hard Rubber Tenor Saxophone Mouthpiece<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-4910-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/Ishimori7.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/Ishimori7.mp3\">https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/Ishimori7.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have an Ishimori Woodstone hard rubber tenor sax mouthpiece to review and play for you today. This is a 7* tip opening (.105) hard rubber mouthpiece. 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