Tenor Mouthpiece

Tenor Mouthpiece

One of Yamaha’s more mutual and competitory mouthpieces, the 4C will provide a student with a better airflow and a more stable range.

A professional mouthpiece will improve your sound more than any other percentage of your saxophone. I commend that be the introductory piece of instrumentation that you buy to upgrade your sound. Mouthpieces will come in two types- Jazz and Classical. For usual playing you will want a good classical mouthpiece. These will be plastic looking. They are called hard rubber. There are three splendid mouthpieces I commend that are reasonably priced. The Rousseau 4R is when it comes to $70 and is fantastic. The 4R refers to the tip size. The Selmer S80 C* is another outstanding mouthpiece. It will cost when it comes to $100 or so. The Rousseau New Classic plays like a S80 with a little dissimilar sound. It costs regarding $80.00. I commend these mouthpieces for all of the saxophones.

Jazz mouthpieces are a little more complicated. If you play Alto, most people will go for a hard rubber mouthpiece as opposed to the metal, which have a tendancy to be a little bright for the alto. If you are going to play a lot of rock music, you may want that bright sound. My bestloved mouthpiece for the alto for usual jazz playing is the Meyer 6M. This is a classic that has been around for a long time. I would in all probability get started here before anything else for alto.

Tenor and Baritone saxophones in general prefer a metal mouthpiece. For tenor I in truth like the Otto Link 7 or 6. This has a good sound and is finelooking popular. I won’t talk regarding soprano or Baritone here; most humans get started on alto or tenor.

Before you recompense the big bucks for a mouthpiece, you ought to always try it out first. If you purchased 10 of the same precise brand, and tried them all, you’d find that they all play different. Always undertake out firstborn and pick the one that works best for you. Later on you may want to buy a hand made mouthpiece and receive pleasure from the fantasti sound that comes from that. Be prepared to compensate the big bucks for one of these!!

You will in all likelihood need a dissimilar size of reed on your jazz mouthpiece then you use on your classical. Most humans use a little softer size on the jazz. Also, if you find the mouthpiece sentiment amusive on your teeth, you may buy a tooth patch to put on the mouthpiece. This will feel comfortable on your front teeth, and protect the mouthpiece.

If you are just beginning on the saxophone, you in truth must stick with the classical piece. After you are more advanced, you’ll in all likelihood want the jazz piece for those styles. If you are not mesmerized in ordinary styles of music, you won’t need the jazz piece. There in truth is a divergence amid the two types, and if you plan on playing all styles, you will unquestionably need both types of mouthpieces.

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3 of 3 humans found the following review helpful.
Safe choice for beginners
By TC
I am an intermediate adult saxophone student, and started studying with a rental Yamaha YTS23 tenor sax Yamaha YTS23 Tenor Saxophone that came with a 4C mouthpiece. Suffice it to say, your mouthpiece has more to do with how your sax sounds that the horn itself! For the beginning student, it is difficult to try out mouthpieces unless you have a local music store that will concede you to test-drive dissimilar ones. If you or your student gets a prospect to test-drive multiple mouthpieces, you will see that this is true. By the time I purchased my own horn, I had the probability to try out 6-8 various dissimilar mouthpieces and chosen a dissimilar brand that worked better for me, but I am sure I will get other mouthpieces as I evolve as a player. Whether you use it for a short time, or keep it forever, the 4C is a good basic mouthpiece that worked for me and is a heck of a bargain for $20.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Obvious buy for beginners
By warmgirl
I took on Tenor Sax for Jazz Band, but the $2,000 rental instrument came with a horrid mouthpiece (yeah, it’s ridiculous). It felt like I was blowing through a straw, and I could not get any dynamics out of it. But from the moment I put this mouthpiece on, it was so much better. Gives rather a rich tone and it is nice and open; even vibrato is easier.

For a $20 mouthpiece, this thing is stellar. I could get not one thing out of the thing I applied before, but now I may make the instrument speak. I’ll be using this thing until it is time for a professional mouthpiece.

0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
happy bando
By momofQ&D
I purchased this mouthpiece for my tenor that I had not played in just over a decade. Was very easy to play and as rusty as I was I think I sounded pretty good! Nice deep sound and happy I didn’t get a more pricey model because this one worked great.

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