Martin
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I’m happy to say that I’m playing more and more often with a local blues trio…they’re inviting me just about every week at the moment.
I use my Martin tenor with an RPC 115B mouthpiece when I want to be nice and mellow, such as while people are still eating dinner and I use my Yamaha 82Z alto with an RPC 85B when I want to really scream, when people are up and dancing to our ‘hotter’ numbers. The brighter, higher pitch seems to cut through to the front of the music.
I want my tenor to scream as well. It’s sounding too mellow. So I’m considering buying a Dukoff D chamber mouthpiece. My problem is that living on a Caribbean island, it’ll have to be mail ordered…yes, I’d love to spend a day trying out equipment in a shop, but that's just impossible.
So which tip opening should I buy, to get a mouthpiece that I’ll be comfortable on? Looking at a comparison chart for tip openings, it appears that I should buy a Dukoff D8, to get the same tip opening as the RPC115B, and I guess I would probably be comfortable on that, as long as the lay is not radically longer or shorter than the RPC. Does anyone agree/disagree?
Just to recap…on the tenor I’m comfortable on the RPC115B with a 2.5 or 3 plasticover, I also have a PPT 9 star, but I have to admit, I think the tip opening is a little to wide for me, some of the time.
So, a Dukoff D what?
PS. Please don’t tell me that I can’t buy a mouthpiece without trying it…’cos that’s impossible.
Looking forward to some advice…
Martin
I use my Martin tenor with an RPC 115B mouthpiece when I want to be nice and mellow, such as while people are still eating dinner and I use my Yamaha 82Z alto with an RPC 85B when I want to really scream, when people are up and dancing to our ‘hotter’ numbers. The brighter, higher pitch seems to cut through to the front of the music.
I want my tenor to scream as well. It’s sounding too mellow. So I’m considering buying a Dukoff D chamber mouthpiece. My problem is that living on a Caribbean island, it’ll have to be mail ordered…yes, I’d love to spend a day trying out equipment in a shop, but that's just impossible.
So which tip opening should I buy, to get a mouthpiece that I’ll be comfortable on? Looking at a comparison chart for tip openings, it appears that I should buy a Dukoff D8, to get the same tip opening as the RPC115B, and I guess I would probably be comfortable on that, as long as the lay is not radically longer or shorter than the RPC. Does anyone agree/disagree?
Just to recap…on the tenor I’m comfortable on the RPC115B with a 2.5 or 3 plasticover, I also have a PPT 9 star, but I have to admit, I think the tip opening is a little to wide for me, some of the time.
So, a Dukoff D what?
PS. Please don’t tell me that I can’t buy a mouthpiece without trying it…’cos that’s impossible.
Looking forward to some advice…
Martin