Opening a Tip - Part 1 of 4

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12 жыл бұрын

September 2011 - Mojo Mouthpiece Work
I start opening up the tip opening of a bari sax Brilhart Special Ebolin mouthpiece.
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@colemanadamson5943 7 жыл бұрын

Fascinating. Good voice tonality. Good speaking rhythm. Good camera work. I am a beginner sax player trying to learn everything. I enjoyed this very much.

@capricorniaproject3020 5 жыл бұрын

I test played a set of tenor mouthpieces today. The Berg Larsen I started with two decades ago was now unplayable. When there are problems with a mouthpiece the problems may lie in the player's experience, their mouth, their teeth, the horn, the reed or, indeed, the mouthpiece. I sent an original C-Melody mouthpiece to a leading Australian mouthpiece expert with a view to having it refaced. He replied that it was an awful mouthpiece, that he might be able to do "something" with it, but it would be expensive and had I thought of finding modern one. I took his advice and bought a Faxx. It does the job well. A musician in a community band I play in saw videos like this, decided it would be easy and spent a day rendering a $400 metal Selmer totally unplayable. He then turned it over to my friend, a highly qualified repairman, who then asked my advice, which was to turn the job down. My inclination is that, if I have a $400 mouthpiece that I don't like (and I do have one at the moment) I will sell it and spend the money on a mouthpiece that I do like.(or a few cases of New Zealand pinot noir). If I want to try this, and I am tempted, I will use the mouthpieces so kindly supplied for this purpose by the manufacturers of the cheapest saxophones on the market.

@BeridotSegas 6 жыл бұрын

how much do you charge for the service? thanks...

@adysaxman77 11 жыл бұрын

Where did you obtain all your tools for measuring the opening of the lay of the mouthpiece etc., or have you made them yourself? Really informative videos by the way.

@ernietollar 12 жыл бұрын

very interesting too see and have explained, thanks.

@maf9314 6 жыл бұрын

Hi any tips how I can make a tip opening smaller. I have a Mogan 8 for alto and want to make it like a 6*

@MojoBari 6 жыл бұрын

MAF Look at my videos on Closing a Tip.

@noname24894 10 жыл бұрын

Dear Sir, where can I purchase bite plate for Otto link tenor mouthpiece.

@carlosmendoza6820 6 жыл бұрын

Try an alto bite plate. They usually fit pretty nicely

@MojoBari 11 жыл бұрын

My tools come from different sources. There is no one stop place. Music medic has most these days. Finding larger feeler gage sizes is a real hassle. Check out my measuring video where I discuss these. The Yahoo Mouthpiece Work group has a lot of good discussions and resources.

@pitifigola-luthierdearmonicas 9 жыл бұрын

Hello , I wanted to make an inquiry , I have a link master tenor sax numero 4 , and 5 wanted change , few millimeters have to have the opening ? ones would have to iron single curve beginning? will have some video to show me. I am from Argentina . tools have the digital gauge . thx

@MojoBari 9 жыл бұрын

Piti Figola I am not sure what your question is. I do not understand.

@pitifigola-luthierdearmonicas 9 жыл бұрын

I want abri one nozzle number 4 and take a 5 , is a master link

@daonlybg 9 жыл бұрын

Piti, ask your question in Spanish, we can probably figure out what you want to know that way

@raefblack7906 10 жыл бұрын

I think I mayt have over done it as my piece doesnt play at all.

@noahdanaj5217 10 жыл бұрын

I have this Soprano sax mouthpiece, and the tips is very fat/big and don't give me that great sound, I'm in Santo Domingo Domiminca Rep. how can I send it to you for you to fix it for me,

@MojoBari 10 жыл бұрын

Contact me at mojomouthpiecework@yahoo.com

@benjaminfalcone2074 3 жыл бұрын

what strength of sand paper do you use?

@mojobari79 3 жыл бұрын

15 and 45 microns. I have a separate video about my work surface.

@benjaminfalcone2074 3 жыл бұрын

@@mojobari79 thx

@dgraylive 5 жыл бұрын

Do your still work on mouthpieces?

@MojoBari 5 жыл бұрын

Yup.

@dgraylive 5 жыл бұрын

Okay. I was wondering if you might be able to tell me why a mouthpiece can't play low notes from F on down to Bb. I can force the F and E but the lower I go, the more it fights back - down to nothing but harmonics and overtones. No low notes whatsoever. I've tried different strength reeds, adjusting reed/ligature position - softer reeds did better producing a thin very closed sounding notes which was very hard to produce but still no where near a professional or even the regular sound of a tenor sax. It sounded more like a giant mechanical duck or train horn or something. I can't remember ever having a problem like this with a mouthpiece. In the past, that problem occurred but it was the horn. This time, it is definitely the mouthpiece - a new one I just acquired. Any thoughts as to why that would happen? Thanks.

@MojoBari 5 жыл бұрын

Dorian Gray I would need to measure the facing to see what may be wrong. See if another player can make it work. You may get some ideas from that test.

@dgraylive 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for that tip. I took all my playable mouthpieces to a tech who eventually pointed out that this mouthpiece basically doesn't have a tip opening. He put them on the table to show me. I could see the differences very easily. The mouthpiece I'm having trouble with looked basically flat. I think I want to pursue making it playable. I believe it can be a really good mouthpiece. Any tips on how a novice could open the tip some without destroying it?