Mouthpiece reviews D'Addario Tenor Mouthpiece

[Young Col]

Jeanette
Not at all! I feel guilty at just not having time to call in. See my comment in the Breakfast Room!
Hope you and the NW cadre are well.
YC

 

[Jeanette]

Jeanette
Not at all! I feel guilty at just not having time to call in. See my comment in the Breakfast Room!
Hope you and the NW cadre are well.
YC

All good thanks 🙂

Jx

 

[CliveMA]

The D'Addario D6M currently has a smaller tip opening 0.095 (2.41mm) vs original 0.100 (2.54mm) that was reviewed in this thread. I've bought one and can confirm it is 0.095.

 

[superpapaben]

This is good news. How can we tell if its .095 or .100? Are there any particular markings on the piece? Is this the case for both the black and the marble iteration?

 

[CliveMA]

This is good news. How can we tell if its .095 or .100? Are there any particular markings on the piece? Is this the case for both the black and the marble iteration?

The shipped box should state tip opening. If you buy second hand most will be .100. I have an open question awaiting D'Addario response to confirm the new shipment change to 0.095.

 

[CliveMA]

The shipped box should state tip opening. If you buy second hand most will be .100. I have an open question awaiting D'Addario response to confirm the new shipment change to 0.095.

Reply from D'Addario:

Thanks for your message about Tenor D6M mouthpiece. The tip opening is 2.54mm.

Note my D6M box does say 2.54mm but it plays less open than my V16 T6 (nominally 2.50mm) which is why I went looking and found the 0.095 on the D'Addario web site. D'Addario did not acknlowledge that table as in error nor say they'd correct it. They only replied what I quoted above.

 

[CliveMA]

The D'Addario D6M currently has a smaller tip opening 0.095 (2.41mm) vs original 0.100 (2.54mm) that was reviewed in this thread. I've bought one and can confirm it is 0.095.

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One year later and D'Addario's table on their Website still says 0.095 for the D6M.

 

[David321321]

Good aren't they?
My usual mouthpiece is a PPT 9* - I have a 10* but keep going back to the 9* - and the overall sound across the range of the D'Addarios is not a million miles away from this. Not screamingly bright but not at all dull. My taste in tenor mouthpieces has mellowed a little over the years and I no longer go for too much ear burning (as represented by a Runyon Quantum 16 with spoiler). Interestingly, the alto's gone in the other direction.
They seemed very unfussy about what reeds were strapped to them - I tried Jazz Select from 2M to 3M, La Voz med and Alexander Superial Classique 3. All worked fine with relatively little alteration to the basic sound apart from the obvious - softer reeds sounding brighter on the narrower tips and vice versa.
All were very easy to control from ppp to fff and into altissimo.
Compared with the PPT they're a bit cleaner sounding (I know what I mean even if you don't 🙂) but the difference is really quite small and, if I didn't have the PPT, I'd be very happy to use one. I can certainly get what I would consider to be a "good tenor sound" out of them - loud, bright (but not too bright) and nice and fat.

Do you still use the PPT 9* tenor? What would you say the differences between the 9* and 10* are that make you return to the 9*?

 

[Nick Wyver]

Do you still use the PPT 9* tenor? What would you say the differences between the 9* and 10* are that make you return to the 9*?

I still use the 9*. Slightly easier blow, a bit brighter. The two aspects may be related. Probably down my usual reed choice (jazz select 2M - the 10* might suit a 2S better, but I don't have any at the moment).