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Hi everyone. Any idea about my soprano mpc? It sounds fantastic! But I have never seen the same, it is very strange for me. Thanks!!!
Otto link long body
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I think Steve Lacy played a square chamber Link. Check with Joe at Soprano Planet:
http://sopranoplanet.com/
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That's an Early Babbitt piece. Very desirable. Steve Lacy did play on a fairly open one. These are circa 1975 era production and didn't last long.
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There are two types of early Babbit square chamber Otto Link pieces, a short body and a long body. Steve Lacy played the short body, with a steeper roof than the long body. I've owned a long body like this, it sounded good on a Selmer series iii soprano, but nothing like Steve Lacy's. Not in the way it looks, nor in the way it sounds. I visited Steve Lacy for a lesson in Paris around 2000 or 2001. The mouthpiece he was playing then was the second one of the three "identical" pieces he ordered. His SA80 soprano was in his practice room. The first mouthpiece broke when he dropped it on the floor. It was refaced, but never was the same. So he switched to his second piece. The mouthpiece on the soprano planet website must be the third one, and the worst of the lot 
It's chamber is much more rounded than the piece he was playing before. Or maybe it sounded better on the Serie iii soprano.
It's chamber is much more rounded than the piece he was playing before. Or maybe it sounded better on the Serie iii soprano.
True, I too think that the concept of very open tips and soft reeds is most important for Steve Lacy's sound. But having made many, many soprano mouthpieces with very open tips in my search for such a sound, my experience is that within that concept all the other variables are still just as important as they are in other tip openings. And the two different types of early Babitt mouthpieces are quite different internally.
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