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I just came across this gorgeous mouthpiece
It plays every bit as good as my old SR Tech Tenor Legend HR, plus it has added depth and character to the sound. The notes seem to pop more when I play fast passages, there is almost a slight edge without it sounding edgy. After spending some time on this piece, when I tried playing the SR tech it sounded Vanilla and boring. To generic top to bottom "if that makes any sense"
Now I've been playing this with my Select Jazz 4M reeds, this mouthpiece is a 6* where as my SR tech was a 7*. The reeds do feel a little soft - I can't push as much air as I'd like to when I really get into it, so I have a box of 4H reeds on order which I'm very excited to try! I have a feeling it's only going to open up this mouthpiece even further!
Here is the interesting bit. After fiddling around with the mouthpiece, I noticed the stock ligature was garbage. The middle screw came up from the plate, only the o ring screw thing was securing the reed (Actually put an indentation in one of my reeds:0) Given that my reeds were not being properly held, I'm surprised it played as good as it did! I've since ordered an Ishimori ligature (Brass) and it should be here in a week or two. I love Ishimori's, so this was a no brainer brainer for me. In the mean time I needed a ligature that sealed properly, so I put my thinking cap on.
Now I'm not a fix it kind of guy, so I'm surprised I was able to pull this off! I grabbed an old Rovner ligature from my drawer and cut two small leather strips from the base of the ligature. I then used gorilla super glue to glue these strips onto the ligature plate of my T ligature. It now holds the reed rather well! Plays much better than before
The leather dampens vibration a bit, so I can't wait for my Ishimori. Never the less I think this was a pretty good short term fix.
It's a late 60's, early 70's Florida USA STM 6* (manufactured before the sale to Babbit in 1973) Ligature and cap were original, she has never been refaced or touched in any way shape or form.
**** I'll post the ligature photo's in the next post, I could only upload 8 photos here
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Now I've been playing this with my Select Jazz 4M reeds, this mouthpiece is a 6* where as my SR tech was a 7*. The reeds do feel a little soft - I can't push as much air as I'd like to when I really get into it, so I have a box of 4H reeds on order which I'm very excited to try! I have a feeling it's only going to open up this mouthpiece even further!
Here is the interesting bit. After fiddling around with the mouthpiece, I noticed the stock ligature was garbage. The middle screw came up from the plate, only the o ring screw thing was securing the reed (Actually put an indentation in one of my reeds:0) Given that my reeds were not being properly held, I'm surprised it played as good as it did! I've since ordered an Ishimori ligature (Brass) and it should be here in a week or two. I love Ishimori's, so this was a no brainer brainer for me. In the mean time I needed a ligature that sealed properly, so I put my thinking cap on.
Now I'm not a fix it kind of guy, so I'm surprised I was able to pull this off! I grabbed an old Rovner ligature from my drawer and cut two small leather strips from the base of the ligature. I then used gorilla super glue to glue these strips onto the ligature plate of my T ligature. It now holds the reed rather well! Plays much better than before
It's a late 60's, early 70's Florida USA STM 6* (manufactured before the sale to Babbit in 1973) Ligature and cap were original, she has never been refaced or touched in any way shape or form.
**** I'll post the ligature photo's in the next post, I could only upload 8 photos here
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