{"id":6993,"date":"2013-03-08T15:12:35","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T20:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/?p=6993"},"modified":"2013-11-26T16:00:20","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T21:00:20","slug":"rafael-navarro-maestra-soprano-saxophone-mouthpiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/rafael-navarro-maestra-soprano-saxophone-mouthpiece\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafael Navarro Maestra Soprano Saxophone Mouthpiece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I have another Rafael Navarro mouthpiece up for review today.\u00a0 This is a hard rubber Maestra 6* soprano saxophone mouthpiece.\u00a0 I used a Vandoren Java 2 1\/2 reed on it with a Vandoren Optimum metal ligature.\u00a0 My soprano sax is a Yamaha YSS-62.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Like all of Rafael&#8217;s mouthpieces I have tried so far, this one is a work of art. The table, facing, rails and tip look perfect. Rafael does amazing work!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/MSTop.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/MSTop.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Rafael Navarro Maestra Soprano Saxophone Mouthpiece<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Maestra soprano saxophone mouthpiece has a nice rollover baffle in it that slopes down into a large chamber. Rafael told me that the design of the soprano Maestra is very similar to the old Otto Link Slant Signature mouthpieces.\u00a0 The chamber is much larger than the chamber of a Selmer Soloist mouthpiece if you compare them side by side although it isn&#8217;t as big as my Theo Wanne Gaia soprano mouthpiece.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/MSTable.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/MSTable.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Rafael Navarro Maestra Soprano Saxophone Mouthpiece<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Maestra was very easy to play! I first tried a Vandoren Java 3 reed which was ok but felt a little stiff for this mouthpiece. The Java 2 1\/2\u00a0 was much easier to play.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/MSBaffle.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/MSBaffle.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Rafael Navarro Maestra Soprano Saxophone Mouthpiece<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Maestra soprano saxophone mouthpiece was even throughout the range of the horn and the intonation was very good.\u00a0 The tone had a sweet sound to it.\u00a0 Very pure and clean sounding.\u00a0 The larger chamber gives it a different tone than many of the soprano mouthpieces out there today with the &#8220;pea shooter&#8221; chambers in them.\u00a0 I think the larger chamber gives it a slightly bigger more spread sound to the tone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/MSChamber.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/MSChamber.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Rafael Navarro Maestra Soprano Saxophone Mouthpiece<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I really enjoyed playing the Rafael Navarro Maestra Hard Rubber Soprano Saxophone Mouthpiece. If you like the sound and look of this mouthpiece contact <a href=\"http:\/\/rafaelnavarro.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rafael Navarro<\/a> through his website.\u00a0 I believe the Maestra soprano mouthpiece is brand new so it might not be up on the website yet.\u00a0 I&#8217;d like to thank Rafael for sending me this Maestra to review. I&#8217;ve spoken to Rafael a number of times on the phone and he really knows his stuff when it comes to mouthpieces.<\/p>\n<p>Let me know what you think in the comments below. Thanks, Steve<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-6993-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/MaestraSoprano2.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/MaestraSoprano2.mp3\">https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/MaestraSoprano2.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><strong>Rafael Navarro Maestra Soprano 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 Rafael Navarro mouthpiece up for review today.\u00a0 This is a hard rubber Maestra 6* soprano saxophone mouthpiece.\u00a0 I used a Vandoren Java 2 1\/2 reed on it with a Vandoren Optimum metal ligature.\u00a0 My soprano sax is a Yamaha YSS-62. 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