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 Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 7:22 pm
Ash Rail MHHornfreak The one on the far left and far right are the ones i use the most. The left one is a Claude Lakey which i use for blues gigs or marchingband. The other is a 7* Otto Link which i'm trying to make my main jazz mouthpiece. : ) hornfreak, now we have the same set up, except you have the original 875. Muahaha, I have the 875 like his. I prefer it to the EX model anyways. That ottolink he's got is the same one I'm going to buy soon, and I just bought the Lomax New York Jazz Classic 7m so I'm pretty much set for alto at least. I love how the metal mouthpieces look on both my pro saxes, they match color exactly!
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Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 8:38 pm
I can't do metal. I just don't agree with any piece I've seen so far. That and I don't seem to like the timbre on them.
The only metal piece I like is the one coltrane used, even though he probably modified the s**t out of it. He's my favorite tenor player, hands down.
I can't stand Wayne Shorter. He sounds and plays way too much like Coltrane. You can't touch the trane. Why try?
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Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 11:45 am
MHHornfreak frozenpenguin421 I play alto. I kinda took my brothers and just picked it up and started playing so I'm not an expert or anything. All the saxes are same fingerings from what I hear...is any harder? it's just hard adjusting to the different embouchers. ah gotcha, thanks
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Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 12:35 pm
Ash Rail I can't do metal. I just don't agree with any piece I've seen so far. That and I don't seem to like the timbre on them. The only metal piece I like is the one coltrane used, even though he probably modified the s**t out of it. He's my favorite tenor player, hands down. I can't stand Wayne Shorter. He sounds and plays way too much like Coltrane. You can't touch the trane. Why try? At first, I really thought metal was a cool idea (when I was in jazz band but no one had one) until I tried it. I didn't like amount of resistance, and with the one I was using I couldn't notice any significant chang ein timbre either, so I thought metal was dying out. Then I went to the shop this past week and had them reccomend me different mpcs to try out, and theottolink actually seemed to outperform the emyer that they had there, so I'm thinking about buying that.
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Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 12:40 pm
ottolink is all about power. : ) If you play with a small ensemble, like a woodwind quartet or something, they could get mad. It might be hard to mesh if you've got a full blown, edged out otto.
Yeah, meyers are kinda overrated. The Meyer 5, for example, is almost as common as the Selmer C* now.
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Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 3:15 pm
Well for something to be good it has to be widely used correct? It's a good mouthpiece for sax players that want to move away from thier stock mouthpiece. As for metal vs hard rubber i'm gonna stick to crystal.
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HAHAH just kidding i prefer playing on mouthpieces that let me project so i go with really open ones. My otto is an 8* and my 4*5 Lakey just projects which is great for pepband and marchingband, specially paired with a 5 reed! I'm trying to stick to my Otto for now since my old sax teacher told me i had a nice rounded tone with it. The otto is good for the band setting i'm in which is bigband, although i didnt use it for our first recording, i used my Selmer Jazz F*.
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Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 3:49 pm
I was just browsing the forums, and WTF.
Why can no one spell SAXOHPONE? Even the band nerds can't spell saxophone! It's not saxaphone, dammit! That just looks stupid! SAXOPHONE, SAXOPHONE, SAXOPHONE! stressed scream evil
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Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 3:53 pm
__penguin__ I was just browsing the forums, and WTF. Why can no one spell SAXOHPONE? Even the band nerds can't spell saxophone! It's not saxaphone, dammit! That just looks stupid! SAXOPHONE, SAXOPHONE, SAXOPHONE! stressed scream evil *points up to quote jokingly* you spelled it wrong the first time heheh but yeah people spell it wrong all the time, sometimes it gets to me as well
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Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 4:06 pm
MHHornfreak Well for something to be good it has to be widely used correct? It's a good mouthpiece for sax players that want to move away from thier stock mouthpiece. As for metal vs hard rubber i'm gonna stick to crystal. ... HAHAH just kidding i prefer playing on mouthpieces that let me project so i go with really open ones. My otto is an 8* and my 4*5 Lakey just projects which is great for pepband and marchingband, specially paired with a 5 reed! I'm trying to stick to my Otto for now since my old sax teacher told me i had a nice rounded tone with it. The otto is good for the band setting i'm in which is bigband, although i didnt use it for our first recording, i used my Selmer Jazz F*. I've never heard anything about that Selmer piece. What's it like?
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Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 12:20 am
it's pretty mellow actually
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Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 8:06 am
Wow. I'm shocked that never heard of it.
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Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 3:14 pm
Selmers been making those mouthpieces for a while now O_o
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Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 4:59 pm
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Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 3:42 pm
i'm with ash on that one. man, now i want to try it! how much is it? reasonable it hope. lol. i have a job now so i'm looking for worth while stuff to spend my money on smile maybe it'll give me a reason to play jazz alto instead of just tenor too!
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Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 6:14 pm
Inucoli i'm with ash on that one. man, now i want to try it! how much is it? reasonable it hope. lol. i have a job now so i'm looking for worth while stuff to spend my money on smile maybe it'll give me a reason to play jazz alto instead of just tenor too! well it's actually a $400 mouthpiece O_o I got mine used so i got it for much cheaper.
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