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In Reply to: Re Trane's mouthpiece(s) posted by Rick W on December 3, 2002 at 20:41:29:
Trane was endorsing Link mouthpieces in those days, appearing in ads. So of course, he probably had piles lying around. Yes, it's true that sax players are continually trying out mouthpieces, and since the loss of his 50's Link, Coltrane spent awhile trying to find one again. I'm surprised that it was a 4 or 5, I would have thought larger, but it would have been a 4* or 5*, and you are right, a 60's 5* is probably a 7* today. I once tried Dexter Gordon's Link backstage, he had a 60's 9** with a #5 reed, it was like blowing a tree trunk. Those guys had cast iron lungs, today, there's none of the younger players who could get a peep out of those mouthpieces.I had a pile of mouthpieces around in my time, Links, Wolf Tayne, Larsens, others. Like anyone else, they can come in handy when your embrochure goes south, as it does from time to time. I always played the Link, but when I was having problems, I went to the Berg Larsen which had a very different tone but was easier to blow through with.
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