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I am very happy to report that I am now the owner of a lovverly Pillinger NYT Tenor bronzite mouthpiece. After trying a few others, this sounds (and records) richer, and appears easy to blow. Oh and Mr (and Mrs) P are a pleasure to deal with.
It also looks pretty good (I know, I know, I'm shallow). I wasn't sure what to expect from the pics, as the bronzite doesn't look that good on the website, but on my sax it looks absolutely amazing.
Yesterday I looked for a lig for it, and wanted a metal lig rather than a rovner type cloth. The problem is that the NYT is smaller than a normal tenor mouthpiece. After some advice from Jules at Sax.co.uk (thanks Jules), I went to WWR in Cambridge where we found that an Alto Vandoren Optimum ligature just fits, if you flatten out the shoulders on the lig to make it a bit bigger. Well chuffed, plus I can use the same lig on my alto mouthpiece 😀
Oh, and I also bought the s/h Lawton from Griff: I'm not comfortable playing it yet, but there's something about it that made me decide to get it and see what it sounds like in 6 months or so.
Right then, now I've got no excuse not to get good...
It also looks pretty good (I know, I know, I'm shallow). I wasn't sure what to expect from the pics, as the bronzite doesn't look that good on the website, but on my sax it looks absolutely amazing.
Yesterday I looked for a lig for it, and wanted a metal lig rather than a rovner type cloth. The problem is that the NYT is smaller than a normal tenor mouthpiece. After some advice from Jules at Sax.co.uk (thanks Jules), I went to WWR in Cambridge where we found that an Alto Vandoren Optimum ligature just fits, if you flatten out the shoulders on the lig to make it a bit bigger. Well chuffed, plus I can use the same lig on my alto mouthpiece 😀
Oh, and I also bought the s/h Lawton from Griff: I'm not comfortable playing it yet, but there's something about it that made me decide to get it and see what it sounds like in 6 months or so.
Right then, now I've got no excuse not to get good...