{"id":6846,"date":"2013-02-11T16:23:37","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T21:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/?p=6846"},"modified":"2014-01-16T14:54:40","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T19:54:40","slug":"ishimori-woodstone-super-custom-medium-small-chambered-alto-saxophone-mouthpiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/ishimori-woodstone-super-custom-medium-small-chambered-alto-saxophone-mouthpiece\/","title":{"rendered":"Ishimori Woodstone Super Custom Medium Small Chambered Alto Saxophone Mouthpiece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I have another Ishimori Woodstone\u00a0 alto saxophone mouthpiece to review and play today.\u00a0 This alto mouthpiece is the hard rubber\u00a0 \u201cSuper Custom\u201d traditional jazz medium small chamber model in a 6 tip opening.\u00a0 About a year and a half ago,\u00a0 I did a review of the medium chamber Wood Stone alto mouthpiece which I loved!\u00a0\u00a0 I was excited to try this one also when I first heard there was a smaller chambered version coming out. \u00a0 I received this mouthpiece last year and ended up buying it because I liked it so much.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/WS6SAltoTop.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/WS6SAltoTop.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Ishimori Woodstone Super Custom Medium Small Chambered Alto Saxophone Mouthpiece<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Like the medium chambered piece I reviewed in the past, this Ishimori mouthpiece is also a work of art.\u00a0 The table, rails, tip, baffle and chamber look perfect. I&#8217;ve only played two of the Ishimori hard rubber alto mouthpieces but both seemed to resonate so much.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know if it is the hard rubber they use,\u00a0\u00a0 how they are made or a combination of both but I really loved both of them!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The chamber on this &#8220;medium small&#8221; chambered mouthpiece is just slightly smaller than the &#8220;medium&#8221; chambered mouthpiece.\u00a0 The difference is\u00a0 very hard for me to see by looking at both mouthpieces side by side.\u00a0 I was actually surprised because I thought the chamber would be be noticeably smaller.\u00a0 At times, I think I can see the difference but other times I look and I can&#8217;t&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/WS6SAltoTable.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/WS6SAltoTable.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Ishimori Woodstone Super Custom Medium Small Chambered Alto Saxophone Mouthpiece<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What I couldn&#8217;t see in the chamber difference, I could definately hear by playing the mouthpiece.\u00a0 This mouthpiece is a little brighter and punchier than the &#8220;medium&#8221; chambered Ishimori.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a very subtle difference but I can really hear it when I play the mouthpieces side by side.\u00a0 You can hear the brightness and pop it has in the upper register on the recording below.\u00a0 It was smooth to play and very even to play around the horn.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/WS6SAltoBaffle.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/WS6SAltoBaffle.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Ishimori Woodstone Super Custom Medium Small Chambered Alto Saxophone Mouthpiece<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The extra brightness makes this mouthpiece a bit more versatile when playing pop and funk music on the alto.\u00a0\u00a0 It still has a respectable straight ahead tone though which would make it a great choice for alto players who have to play in different genres all night long.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/WS6SAltoCham.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/WS6SAltoCham.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Ishimori Woodstone Super Custom Medium Small Chambered Alto Saxophone Mouthpiece<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The one thing that I noticed that was different than other 6 tip openings I have played is that this mouthpiece needs a much harder reed for me than other 6 tip opening mouthpieces I have played.\u00a0\u00a0 The medium chamber Ishimori 6 that I reviewed before played great with a Wood Stone #3 reed but on this 6 the #3 reeds I had felt too soft.\u00a0 The Wood Stone 3 1\/2 reeds work great and I would even be curious to try the Wood Stone 4 reeds perhaps.\u00a0 The intonation was good and\u00a0 I loved how flexible this mouthpiece is.\u00a0 If you want to bend a note or subtone it is so easy.\u00a0 The smaller chamber makes it easier to pop on notes you want to accent and it&#8217;s got the perfect amount of resistance for me on the 3 1\/2 reed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/WS6SAltoChamber.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/WS6SAltoChamber.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Ishimori Woodstone Super Custom Medium Small Chambered Alto Saxophone Mouthpiece<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There is an Ishimori website\u00a0 but it is in Japanese.\u00a0 It has an English translation for the site but it is one of those translations that is rough to read and decipher&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Let me know what you think in the comments below. Thanks, Steve<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-6846-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/Woodstone6S3.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/Woodstone6S3.mp3\">https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/Woodstone6S3.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><strong>Ishimori Woodstone Super Custom Medium Small Chambered Alto Saxophone Mouthpiece<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have another Ishimori Woodstone\u00a0 alto saxophone mouthpiece to review and play today.\u00a0 This alto mouthpiece is the hard rubber\u00a0 \u201cSuper Custom\u201d traditional jazz medium small chamber model in a 6 tip opening.\u00a0 About a year and a half ago,\u00a0 I did a review of the medium chamber Wood Stone alto mouthpiece which I loved!\u00a0\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":7104,"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":[297,608,716,784,783],"class_list":{"0":"post-6846","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-ishimori","11":"tag-jazz-sax","12":"tag-medium-small-chamber","13":"tag-wood-stone","14":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6846","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=6846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}