meyer

[conntenor]

I bought a meyer 10 about a week ago and am still waiting for it to arrive.
What do you think of these?

[Razzy]

Heh, I play a 5...

[bloozer john]

hey.
I think the meyer's are great.
I tried a 7M, but stupidly i bought an otto link 5*. I like it buts its just not what i wanted. I think meyer's sound great. I was 13 or so when i bought the link at didnt really no what i was doing and bought it just casue it was metal and thought i would look cool.
Wait for it, if it doesnt come soon, SUE THEM!!!!
c ya

John 8)

[conntenor]

the guy must never check his mail
i sent the money on wednesday and on sunday he finally decides to send the mouthpiece.

[conntenor]

has anybody heard one on a conn?

[conntenor]

got it on friday, though it only improves the squeaking and blasting.

can somebody send me a recording of themself on a meyer?

[Joe Jazz]

I play a Meyer 5 small chamber on tenor and love it...couldn't imagine doing anything but squeaking and blasting on a 10, but that's just me....

[conntenor]

Give me your email address and I'll send you a sound clip of it on my conn.

[woodwindmaster06]

I play a Meyer 6M and I dont like it very much and am searching for a good classical piece still, but 10 is a different story it might suit you just fine.

[conntenor]

Would meyer's be described as dark mouthpieces? I bought a ria 6 in hope that it would stop the dark sound my conn tenor makes.

[Razzy]

Meyer 10? Holy schmoly! That's HUGE. I play a 6M on tenor and a 5M on alto. I have a recording from about 2 months ago of me on alto with the 5M, Vito student model alto and I think Rico select jazz 3soft reeds. Not the greatest tune in the world but it'll give you a general idea of how a meyer sounds. Should be up on a friend's website pretty soon, I'll leave the link here once it is.

Meyers are pretty "middle of the road" pieces, leaning toward jazz because they're plenty bright with some edge.

[conntenor]

Well it was a custom order mouthpiece. The guy I got it from had to wait 6 months to get it.

[Bob M]

FYI the tip opening for a Meyer 10 is .104" or about the same as a Link 7*

[DanF]

I have a Meyer 5 with a medium chamber I play on alto and love it. I also had a Meyer 6 medium facing for tenor I hated. It played easy enough but I just didn't care for the sound. Very stuffy and lifeless in my opinion. I guess it depends on what type of music you like to play. Some jass guys like the dark subdued sound but I like the edge that my HR Bergs give me. To each his own.

[noelpaz]

I have an old Meyer 4 with the True Flex Table - the one with the ridges or an indentation so the reed vibrates more. The sound is huge an versatile. I can do flutelike passages (ala Jan Garbarek) - subtones and then can blast ala Albert Ayer. When I started playing jazz, the conception I had was that I need metal - so I got a Bari mpc 110 then a link 7. Now I am playing more close. I have a link 7 and this Meyer - the Meyer is a a versatile mouthpiece. Coltrane use a rubber Otto towards thel ater years and he played real avant garde with smaller tip opening

[Razzy]

I have a Meyer 5 with a medium chamber I play on alto and love it. I also had a Meyer 6 medium facing for tenor I hated. It played easy enough but I just didn't care for the sound. Very stuffy and lifeless in my opinion. I guess it depends on what type of music you like to play. Some jass guys like the dark subdued sound but I like the edge that my HR Bergs give me. To each his own.

In my experience, the new meyer tenor pieces are of generally lower quality. You have to pick through a lot before you find a real good one. Whereas the altos are all around good with a great one here and there. That's why I order 3 of the same exact facing/chamber size from WWBW at a time, and choose the best one. Once I get 3 real crappy tenor meyer 6's. I then sent in another order and 1 was poor, one good, and one great. Kept the great one :roll:

Also, for that soundclip, it's not very good, heh. I've definitely gotten better since I did this recording back in April. Still, I now use the same mouthpiece but a bit harder reeds. It should still give you some concept of how a meyer generally sounds.

http://www.thepagebetween.com/art/improvisation2.wma

If that doesn't work directly then go here and download the file:

http://www.thepagebetween.com/art/music.html

[DanF]

Razzy, I thought that sound clip was great. That was your Meyer on alto?

[Razzy]

Thanks dan! Yes that's me on alto, Vito student model, Meyer 5 piece I ordered about 6 mos. ago, and rico select jazz 3soft reed.

[alsdiego]

Hey Razzy,

I just noticed you're from Cherry Hill. I grew up in Westfield, not far from you. Bought my first VW in Cherry Hill :D

Al

[conntenor]

Hey you guys with meyers, try playing a #4 hemke reed; works great on my meyer 10.

[conntenor]

Would everybody post sound clips of themselves on their meyers?

[conntenor]

Sadly I am selling my Meyer on ebay due to the length of the table. I prefer number 4 hemke reeds but I will not play them.

[Sassaphone]

How long have you been playing Conntenor?

[conntenor]

Since August '01. Started in Sixth grade. Still playing in school. Plan on joining sax quartet when christmas break is over. also going to be in woodwind ensemble which is mostly for honor band members and some really good symphonic players (if band director starts a quartet and woodwind ensemble). Band director hasn't exactly gotten an award for being good at getting around to things. I told him that I play a meyer 10 and he asked if it was made of pvc pipe. :lol: By the way i found a discussion where you post a sound clip of everybody playing, but forgot where it is; can somebody tell where it is located?

[Walnuts]

An 8th grade sax quartet...wish I joined one that early. I did not have an oppertunity to join a quartet until 9th grade, and I do wish Schools would have them earlier on because they are so benificial to all the members of the quartet. Many students' playing skills will rise alot after a few monthes in a good quartet. its a great ensamble to be in, espicially during teenage years because with the money you'll be making in a quartet, you wont even need a steady job until college.

And about meyers, I use a Hard Rubber 8 with various reeds depending on what sound I want. An open meyer can sing in a lot of different moods. I use a vand trad 3.5 on it for general playing, and a 3 Vandoren ZZ for rock. My meyer 8 can get amazingly edgy while still keeping a steady rich and full sound. So, you'll have no problem getting edge when you want with you Meyer 10.

its such a great mouthpiece overall, and I its price of 80 - 90 dollars is very reasonable.

I've been hunting around for a Grained Ebnonite Berg Larsen lately with hopes that it'll sound better for me than my meyer 8. Even though the Berg will cost twice as much, it is my oppinion that the meyer will be very hard to beat.

[lamgigi]

hi Walnuts,

did you try HR ottolink before?
i want to know the difference between HR meyer and HR ottolink.
thanks

[Walnuts]

Sorry, I've never tried a HArd rubber link.

[alto86]

hi Walnuts,

did you try HR ottolink before?
i want to know the difference between HR meyer and HR ottolink.
thanks

I'll try to answer that if I may -
In my experience (meyer 7 to link 7 and 8) the meyer tends to be a brighter sounding piece. It's more of a compact sound with a little more edge. Of course, this could be the fact that it was an 8S that I was using, which is a big difference from the chamber of a Link, not to mention the difference in tip opening.

I chose the Link 8 to play for all around work. It doesn't have the volume or projection of the Meyer, but right now I'm only playing in a quartet on tenor, so having a piece that really blasts wasn't a necessity. If I were playing in a combo with it (with a drummer) I might be tempted to go with a Meyer with a more open tip. Perhaps a 9 or 10.

[alto86]

If you would like, I could probably getting around to making sound-clips on each.

[lamgigi]

thanks

I try meyer 7 today. It is easy to blow and sound so great.
But why people said that it is "Very stuffy and lifeless" ??

[Razzy]

I have played a few "stuffy and lifeless" meyers. Then I picked another Meyer and it sounded excellent. The production is not incredibly consistent, and sometimes getting a "dud" refaced is the trick to making it sound great. I examined some of the duds I've played and they always seem to have a warped tip, or uneven siderails, or lopsided facing, or any combination of the above.

[usda]

From a local guy I tried several custom mouth pieces for my real old Bundy Alto. I settled on a meyers #5 that he had dabbled with....he said he used the meyer as a blank...

A long story short...it brought the Alto alive with a bright and slightly harsh edge which I personally love. It reminds me of Dex Gordon with his Conn during his early periods. That was a tenor of course...but the alto still wails.

he said something important..."you will grow into the mouthpiece." Meaning the true sound you will end up with will take awhile. That was true...At first there but a triffle of difference between the Selmer C and the custom Meyer. but as time went on the sound changed and became brighter, larger and in a way difficult to describe...more brash and flatter (fatter might be a better word)....definitly louder and I love it. It definitly doesn't sound like Paul Desmond...and on this horn that may be impossible...but the mp definitly opened a new dimension...like I said...more in the direction of a direct, slightly hard, brash almost tenor like sound.

Maybe some of it is the way I blow the damn thing...

[usda]

I also moved from harder to softer reeds...from a 3 and 3 1/2 to a 2 1/2.

Easier and louder blowing...in softer, less loud passages a reedy whisper is heard, not a squeek, but which I think actually gives a kind of interest and personality...I hear the same thing in some of Stan Getz's stuff. :roll: