Author: hautboy
Date: 2012-01-05 19:32
Hi,
I'm primarily an oboe/english horn player who doubles (or triples) on sax and occasionally clarinet. I have a student model selmer sax which is fine for doubling purposes. I would however like to get a better mouthpiece. A suggestion that I was given was an Otto Link hard rubber 5. I think he suggested a 5 because I'm a doubler and sax isn't my main instrument. He also suggested using LaVoz reeds. Currently I use Vandoren ZZ reeds or Rico Royal. I don't want a heavy reed, I want a reed that will speak easily. I don't need a bright mouthpiece because I'm not playing loud jazz solos, I'm playing in the pit where I need to be for the most part a bit more covered, not so bright sounding. I know obviously that I have to just go out and try some mouthpieces to see what will work best for me and my sax, but does anyone have any suggestions? Do you think it would be best to maybe stick with a 5 or 6 for my purposes? Also not sure the newer Otto Links are quite the same standard as the older ones.
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