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<\/a><\/p>\nSoprano Planet Missing Link Soprano Sax Mouthpiece We emailed back and forth a bit and Joe got a bit of an idea of what I liked I guess because I received a “Missing Link” in the mail a couple of weeks ago.\u00a0 It’s been a crazy month so to be honest it has been sitting on my desk for the last 2 weeks.\u00a0 On Monday I decided to give it a play.<\/p>\n The mouthpiece looks great.\u00a0 The table, rails and tip all look even and perfect. It has a rollover baffle that descends smoothly to a medium chamber.\u00a0 I call the area at the bottom of the baffle the chamber. The hole going into the bore I call the throat.\u00a0 The Missing Link’s chamber is larger and deeper than a Riffault and Selmer Super Session that I have on hand. The throat is slightly smaller than my customized Riffault and larger than the Super Session. The throat looks to be almost egg shaped rather than perfectly round.<\/p>\n Here is what Joe Giardullo says about the Missing Link mouthpiece on the Soprano Planet<\/a> website:<\/p>\n “The genesis of the Missing Link was my desire to create a piece that would have some of the characteristics of the best “slant signature” Links and also the best characteristics of the rare “squared oval” design of the early Babbitt Links.<\/em><\/p>\n The throat is large but not huge, the chamber is medium and the piece plays with a beautiful glow, it jumps throughout the range and it plays with a light, even resistance from bottom through the altissimo.<\/em><\/p>\n The roof has a very carefully designed, long rollover-style baffle, but it is so integrated as to be almost unnoticeable to the eye.<\/em><\/p>\n The end result is a revelation. I could tell you about it but here is what a few recent clients wrote about their “Missing Link”………….(you can visit the site to read the many reviews)<\/em><\/p>\n Soprano Planet Missing Link Soprano Sax Mouthpiece<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n I played the Missing Link with a Vandoren Java 3 1\/2 reed that I had been playing on my Theo Wanne Gaia mouthpiece.\u00a0 There are no tip opening marks on the mouthpiece but the 3 1\/2 reed played perfectly on it.\u00a0 I emailed Joe later and he told me it was a .057 tip opening.<\/p>\n I really loved this mouthpiece.\u00a0 It has a sweet singing tone to it.\u00a0 The intonation on it was about as perfect as I have seen on a soprano mouthpiece.\u00a0 I have never played a Otto Link Slant soprano mouthpiece so I can’t talk about how it compares.\u00a0 The tone was nice and crisp while still being round and full sounding to me.\u00a0 It is darker and more round sounding then my Gaia that I have been playing for the last year. Because it has a\u00a0 smaller tip at .057 and doesn’t get the volume of the larger tipped Gaia but I really loved the tone and roundness of it.<\/p>\n On a side note,\u00a0 Joe told me that he decided to go with the smaller .057 tip because he has found that Yamaha 62 sopranos accept air differently than a lot of horns and that blowing too much air through them doesn’t really work with them.\u00a0 You have to have a\u00a0 mouthpiece with a certain balance to really make the Yamaha 62’s really sing………I found that interesting as I had never heard that before.<\/p>\n I recorded this clip with the soprano bell pointed right at the microphone.\u00a0 It was about two feet from the mic.\u00a0 I have never been totally happy with the soprano recordings because recording from the bell can make some notes have a different timbre and tone.\u00a0 It can also sound brighter when recording this way.\u00a0 Even having said all that, I am pretty happy with the sound on this recording.\u00a0 Yesterday I played it in a large hall for about 6 hours and it sounded killer in there with the natural reverb.<\/p>\n Soprano Planet Missing Link Soprano Sax Mouthpiece<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n If your interested in trying one of these mouthpieces yourself, visit Soprano Planet <\/a>and talk to Joe Giardullo yourself.\u00a0 He will be more than happy to set you up with the perfect mouthpiece for your soprano saxophone.\u00a0 Thanks so much to Joe for sending me this “Missing Link” to review.\u00a0 This one is staying with me………………<\/p>\n Soprano Planet Missing Link Soprano Sax Mouthpiece<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>
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