{"id":574,"date":"2009-08-13T22:56:22","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T03:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/?p=574"},"modified":"2014-01-16T22:45:56","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T03:45:56","slug":"hard-rubber-otto-link-7-tenor-mouthpiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/hard-rubber-otto-link-7-tenor-mouthpiece\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard Rubber Otto Link 7* Tenor Mouthpiece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This mouthpiece is the best hard rubber link I&#8217;ve ever played.\u00a0 I won it off Ebay for 200.00 bucks.\u00a0 That was the opening bid and no one else bid on it.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a little confusing because the seller said it was a John Reilly reface but when I received the piece it had engraving on it that said &#8220;BP .107 #105&#8221; \u00a0 I didn&#8217;t know what this was.\u00a0 I received some pieces back from Brian Powell and I noticed that he engraved them just like this which leads me to believe that Brian Powell refaced this.\u00a0 Maybe John refaced it later but from my experience playing Brian&#8217;s work I can&#8217;t believe someone would have it refaced again.\u00a0 I love the piece so much and am so impressed with it that I sent my JVW Early Babbit Link to him to reface.\u00a0 This piece has the classic link sound but has tons of power when pushed.\u00a0 You can really wail on this piece and it&#8217;s not picky about reeds at all.\u00a0 Any Java 2 1\/2 works great on it. I emailed Brian and he said he did work on the piece and that it was one of those recent Otto Link pieces that is suppose to be a copy of the old ones.\u00a0 I do know that the slant of the beak is higher than on my Early Babbitt link.\u00a0 Let me know what you think.<br \/>\nlisten&#8230;<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-574-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/images\/mp3\/Powell%20HR%20Link1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/images\/mp3\/Powell%20HR%20Link1.mp3\">https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/images\/mp3\/Powell%20HR%20Link1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This mouthpiece is the best hard rubber link I&#8217;ve ever played.\u00a0 I won it off Ebay for 200.00 bucks.\u00a0 That was the opening bid and no one else bid on it.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a little confusing because the seller said it was a John Reilly reface but when I received the piece it had engraving on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"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":[108,156,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-574","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-tenor-low-baffle-reviews","7":"category-tenor-mouthpieces","8":"tag-brian-powell","9":"tag-otto-link","10":"tag-tenor-mouthpiece","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574","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=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}