{"id":729,"date":"2009-09-18T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-19T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/?p=729"},"modified":"2022-11-18T12:30:37","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T17:30:37","slug":"aizen-ls-tenor-mouthpiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/aizen-ls-tenor-mouthpiece\/","title":{"rendered":"Aizen LS Tenor Saxophone Mouthpiece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">This is the new Aizen LS 7* \u00a0tenor \u00a0saxophone mouthpiece. \u00a0I have one of these for my alto saxophone that I love and am lucky enough to be able to try this tenor sax model. I&#8217;ve had it for 2 weeks and played it almost everyday. These are advertised as being copies of a vintage &#8220;Slant Signature&#8221; hard rubber Link. \u00a0This mouthpiece played great for me! \u00a0It had great volume when I pushed it but could get nice and lush sounding when I laid back. \u00a0There is a certain graininess and character to the tone that I really loved. \u00a0I compared the baffle to my other link pieces and pics I&#8217;ve seen of slants and I think it&#8217;s a pretty close match from what I&#8217;ve seen. \u00a0It has a \u00a0baffle that slants gradually into the back of the chamber. There are no dips or pockets in the baffle like many modern Otto Link mouthpieces have. The upper register and altissimo were a breeze with this mouthpiece and the notes were full and round. \u00a0Actually, this piece reminded me a little of the \u00a0Selmer Soloist mouthpiece I use to have because it had that same dark core to the sound but this piece has a bigger sound in my opinion. \u00a0I have decided to send it back but only because the tip opening wasn&#8217;t quite right for me. \u00a0I think I would like to try one of these in an 8 in the future. \u00a0Go to Minoru Kubota&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/sax.co.jp\/en\/mouthpiece\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aizen website<\/a> in case you want to check one of these mouthpieces out.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/AizenLS1.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0pt none; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/easygallery\/88888894\/AizenLS1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/AizenLS2.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/easygallery\/88888894\/AizenLS2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-729-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/images\/mp3\/Aizen%20LS%202.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/images\/mp3\/Aizen%20LS%202.mp3\">https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/images\/mp3\/Aizen%20LS%202.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-729-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/images\/mp3\/Aizen%20LS.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/images\/mp3\/Aizen%20LS.mp3\">https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/images\/mp3\/Aizen%20LS.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the new Aizen LS 7* \u00a0tenor \u00a0saxophone mouthpiece. \u00a0I have one of these for my alto saxophone that I love and am lucky enough to be able to try this tenor sax model. I&#8217;ve had it for 2 weeks and played it almost everyday. These are advertised as being copies of a vintage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":14306,"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":[232,233,12,234,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-729","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-aizen-ls","10":"tag-minoru-kubota","11":"tag-saxophone","12":"tag-slant-link","13":"tag-tenor-mouthpiece","14":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729","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=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}