{"id":4922,"date":"2011-08-15T19:59:10","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T00:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/?p=4922"},"modified":"2014-01-16T14:59:30","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T19:59:30","slug":"lebayle-lrii-tenor-saxophone-mouthpiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/lebayle-lrii-tenor-saxophone-mouthpiece\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebayle LRII Tenor Saxophone Mouthpiece"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, I am reviewing a Fred Lebayle LRII tenor saxophone mouthpiece.\u00a0 The last time I played a Lebayle tenor mouthpiece was about 8 years ago.\u00a0 I bought a wood Lebayle Jazz mouthpiece to try.\u00a0 The mouthpiece totally blew my mind.\u00a0 I fell in love with it and was ecstatic to play it.\u00a0 I played it for about two weeks on every gig I had and it sounded killer!\u00a0 On the third week, I took it out to play a gig and it would not play.\u00a0 It wasn’t responding and when it did it would squeak.\u00a0 I was devastated!\u00a0 The only thing I could think of was that the wood had warped and was messed up.\u00a0 I sent it back to Mr. Lebayle and he was nice enough to reface it and send me another mouthpiece when he sent it back.\u00a0 The other mouthpiece was a wood LR model.\u00a0 Both mouthpieces played great but to be honest, I was so messed up from the issue with the wood warping that I was afraid to play them.\u00a0\u00a0 I ended up selling them and haven’t tried a Lebayle tenor mouthpiece since then. (nor another wood mouthpiece)<\/p>\n

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Lebayle LRII Tenor Saxophone Mouthpiece<\/strong><\/p>\n

I received this mouthpiece from Brian at Sax-ccesories in California.\u00a0 He was kind enough to let me try a few mouthpieces that I haven’t tried\u00a0 yet.\u00a0 I was pleasantly surprised by this rhodium plated Lebayle LRII.\u00a0 I’ve been wanting to try one of these for quite a while because I have read that Branford Marsalis uses one on tenor.\u00a0 I loved his sound on the album “Eternal” and was very curious as to what he was playing on after I heard that album.<\/p>\n

The Lebayle LRII\u00a0 has a smooth rollover baffle that squeezes\u00a0 together a bit as it enters the chamber.\u00a0 I don’t think I’ve seen a mouthpiece with this exact baffle before.\u00a0 The chamber looks huge to me.\u00a0 It looks cavernous coming from the baffle and sidewalls.<\/p>\n

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The sound of this mouthpiece is on the darker side of the tone spectrum.\u00a0 It has a strong thick core to the sound that seems to have soft edges to it.\u00a0 I know all these strange descriptions are a bit nebulous when you read them but I’m trying to put into words what I’m thinking when I played it so bear with me………..The low register is beefy and thick.\u00a0 The high register brightens up a little but not much.\u00a0 It was still quite dark sounding to me.\u00a0 I often get emails from players asking me to recommend a dark mouthpiece that is powerful.\u00a0 This is on the top of my list for those of you looking for that sound.\u00a0 Check out the clip below and you can decide for yourself.
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The intonation on the Lebayle LRII was quite good on my Selmer SBA tenor.\u00a0 I think the large chamber really complements the bore size of the SBA as the notes were much easier to play in tune than on other mouthpieces with higher baffles and smaller chambers than the LRII.<\/p>\n

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Lebayle LRII Tenor Saxophone Mouthpiece<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Let me know what you think in the comments below. Thanks, Steve<\/p>\n

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Lebayle LRII Tenor Saxophone Mouthpiece
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Today, I am reviewing a Fred Lebayle LRII tenor saxophone mouthpiece.\u00a0 The last time I played a Lebayle tenor mouthpiece was about 8 years ago.\u00a0 I bought a wood Lebayle Jazz mouthpiece to try.\u00a0 The mouthpiece totally blew my mind.\u00a0 I fell in love with it and was ecstatic to play it.\u00a0 I played it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":14596,"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":[1121,45],"tags":[625,626,117,265],"class_list":{"0":"post-4922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tenor-low-baffle-reviews","8":"category-tenor-mouthpieces","9":"tag-fred-lebayle","10":"tag-lrii","11":"tag-sax-mouthpiece","12":"tag-tenor-saxophone","13":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4922","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=4922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}