{"id":6240,"date":"2012-10-23T19:53:04","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T00:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/?p=6240"},"modified":"2014-01-16T14:55:45","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T19:55:45","slug":"marmaduke-hard-rubber-alto-saxophone-mouthpiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/marmaduke-hard-rubber-alto-saxophone-mouthpiece\/","title":{"rendered":"Marmaduke Hard Rubber Alto Saxophone Mouthpiece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Today, I am reviewing another alto saxophone mouthpiece that is made by Alex Miyatake in Japan. \u00a0 I have reviewed two of his Marmaduke alto mouthpieces in the past but this one I&#8217;m reviewing today is a new version that has had some modification made to it from the older versions. \u00a0 This alto mouthpieces is brand new and I am excited to try it out. \u00a0 It has a .078 tip opening (6).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The chamber looks very close to the size of a medium Meyer size chamber.\u00a0 Unfortunately, I don&#8217;t have the old alto mouthpieces any longer so you will have to listen to the sound clips to see if you hear any differences between them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/MarmadukeAltoFront.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/MarmadukeAltoFront.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Marmaduke Hard Rubber Alto Sax Mouthpiece<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">These Marmaduke alto saxophone mouthpieces look great.\u00a0 The tip and rails are thin and even.\u00a0 The tip matches the shape of my reeds perfectly.\u00a0 I used a Rigotti Gold 3 reed on this clip and the mouthpiece played great with that reed. The mouthpiece has a slight rollover baffle<em>.\u00a0 <\/em>The chamber is about the size of a medium Meyer chamber to my eyes.<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/MarmadukeAltoBaffle.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/MarmadukeAltoBaffle.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><strong><strong><strong>Marmaduke Hard Rubber Alto Sax Mouthpiece<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This Marmaduke 6 had a nice crisp brightness to the sound.\u00a0 Even though the notes were bright, the tone was thick and fat in my opinion.\u00a0 It reminded me of that vintage &#8220;Meyer&#8221; type brightness and power.\u00a0 A nice compact powerful tone.\u00a0 The tone was flexible and very easy to manipulate.\u00a0 It felt like it had the perfect amount of resistance for me which I find makes a mouthpiece more expressive.<\/p>\n<p>The intonation was right on and the mouthpiece was very easy to play right out of the box. The high notes have a great ring and vibrant sound to them that I loved.<\/p>\n<p>The vibe I was getting from this mouthpiece is a &#8220;Phil Woods&#8221; type sound on the album Warm Woods.\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;m not saying I picked it up and sounded exactly like that but the tone reminded me of that album for some reason&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;(I loved that album when I was in high school!)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/MarmadukeAltoTable.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/MarmadukeAltoTable.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><strong>Marmaduke Hard Rubber Alto Sax Mouthpiece<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If your interested in trying one of these mouthpieces yourself, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/members.jcom.home.ne.jp\/marmaduke\/Marmaduke%20Mouthpiece%20English.html\" target=\"_blank\">Marmaduke Mouthpieces<\/a> and talk to Alex Miyatake yourself for more information.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>Marmaduke HR .078 Alto Mouthpiece<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-6240-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/MarmadukeHRAlto6.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/MarmadukeHRAlto6.mp3\">https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/MarmadukeHRAlto6.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I am reviewing another alto saxophone mouthpiece that is made by Alex Miyatake in Japan. \u00a0 I have reviewed two of his Marmaduke alto mouthpieces in the past but this one I&#8217;m reviewing today is a new version that has had some modification made to it from the older versions. \u00a0 This alto mouthpieces [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":14647,"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":[1123,46],"tags":[297,129,477,117],"class_list":{"0":"post-6240","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-alto-medium-baffle-reviews","8":"category-alto-mouthpieces","9":"tag-alto-saxophone","10":"tag-hard-rubber","11":"tag-marmaduke","12":"tag-sax-mouthpiece","13":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6240","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=6240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}