{"id":691,"date":"2009-08-14T23:47:28","date_gmt":"2009-08-15T04:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/?p=691"},"modified":"2014-05-03T15:35:34","modified_gmt":"2014-05-03T20:35:34","slug":"new-vintage-slant-otto-link-tenor-mouthpiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/new-vintage-slant-otto-link-tenor-mouthpiece\/","title":{"rendered":"New “Vintage” Slant Otto Link Tenor Mouthpiece"},"content":{"rendered":"

This a “New” “Vintage” “Slant” Otto Link \u00a0hard rubber tenor mouthpiece. \u00a0There has been a lot of buzz about these lately. Babbitt has come out with these as a model that is comparable to the vintage slant signature hard rubber links everyone is paying big bucks for on ebay. \u00a0Now I have to say, that with all this talk about these pieces, I was pretty \u00a0excited and my expectations were pretty darn high when I opened the box it came in………<\/p>\n

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Well, it plays pretty good for me but it’s not the greatest mouthpiece to ever be created. \u00a0This is definitely \u00a0a better mouthpiece than the modern hard rubber Tone edges are that I have played. I will recommend these to students but I would suggest trying them before you buy them. \u00a0I think they are a good value for the money and that price range.\u00a0As you can hear in the sound clip there is a lot of airiness in the sound. \u00a0I could get rid of that by moving to a softer reed but then the reed would feel too soft (I tried that) The reed I’m using on it is a Vandoren Java 3 and felt great when I made the clip. \u00a0The mouthpiece is labeled as a 7* but it feels smaller to me. I have heard rumors that these run small in the tip sizes so maybe this is the case with this one. Anyways, you can check out the sound clip and let me know what you think. I’m hoping to get this one refaced by Brian Powell to a 7* or 8. I’m curious what Brian thinks of the piece and how the facing measures up.<\/p>\n

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This a “New” “Vintage” “Slant” Otto Link \u00a0hard rubber tenor mouthpiece. \u00a0There has been a lot of buzz about these lately. Babbitt has come out with these as a model that is comparable to the vintage slant signature hard rubber links everyone is paying big bucks for on ebay. \u00a0Now I have to say, that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":14308,"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":[156,68,219,220],"class_list":{"0":"post-691","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-otto-link","10":"tag-tenor-mouthpiece","11":"tag-vintage-link","12":"tag-vintage-slant","13":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","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=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}