ok i don't like my mouthpiece and i want a jazz mouthpiece. at my school we had a substitute band teacher and she was using a meyer 5 mouthpiece and i liked it. i think thats a good mouthpiece to use.
in your opinion is that a good mouthpiece? or can you recommend any other jazz mouthpiece?
P.s. I play an alto sax For an advancing student, I think a Meyer 5 or 6 is an excellent choice. This is what I almost always recommend as the step up mouthpiece for a modern or jazz sound for advancing students.
There are many other good alternatives, but this is a very forgiving choice, without creating a host of other issues. The Meyer family of mouthpieces are good mouthpieces. If you like the sound you get on it (with your current setup), then you are good. There are plenty of other great jazz mouthpieces too. After all, maybe you'll like a Meyer 6 or a Meyer 4 more. As with any mouthpiece, go try as many as you can and find the ones that give you the tone you like the most. Buy that one. I use my "classical" mouthpiece for jazz music too, as it is still a good tone. For a large, very loud big band I use a Claude Lakey 7* which has a nasty, awful tone, but it plays really loud, cuts through the band, and actually sounds ok when it is in the audience. For a quartet though, I would definetely not use it. This works for me though, and you may not like it at all. |
