Mouthpiece poll. Favorite moutpiece company?

[Anonymous]

what are your favorite mouthpiece companies? I prefer vintage selmers, vandorens, and meyers. Voice your opinions

[paulwl]

Where's the POLL? :?

My choice: The Woodwind Co., New York. Hands down.

[Quijote]

Jon van Wie. He can turn any mpc into a jewel.

[tomsch]

Ponzol! Every model of Peter's I've tried seems to work very well for me.

[WG]

Selmers (metal and hard rubber). On alto.

[Roger Aldridge]

Ralph Morgan

[Chris-Sax]

Freddie Gregory (London) + Dave Guardala!!

[JPrince]

I'd say JJBabbitt for there Otto Links

[jd]

meyer,dukoff,beechler,vandoren

[ted]

Ron Coelho

[buffalo]

Jody Jazz

[Joseph Boucher]

J.J. Babbit Company for their (HR) Otto Link mouthpiece.

[Chris]

Lawton, Guardala

[Joseph Boucher]

Bobby Dukoff and his Dukoff D6 metal mouthpiece. I just bought it today and I 'hope' it will be my favorite. After my Otto Link #5 HR.

[woodwindmaster06]

Pomarico, Vandoren, Morgan

[PB]

What a poll...........
But here we go: BRILHART TONALIN !!!

[dingfelder]

nobody likes Runyons anymore ?

[Tim Price]

Lamberson.

[Fun Bun]

Jon Van Wie 8)

[Joseph Boucher]

Jon is very very ill right now. I read about it in the misc. post section.

[BayviewSax]

Otto Link, pre-1984

[tyler_terlecki]

otto link and beechler

although i recommend meyer to most of my students, lol

[woodwindmaster06]

NEW TOP
1. Vandoren
2. Selmer
3. Morgan
4. Pomarico

[colibri]

Ralph Morgan.

[popsax]

Vandoren for the Java and Selmer for the S80C.

[averageschmoe]

vintage selmer, SR technologies, rousseau...

[M Exner]

Selmer C*s on both alto and soprano. Tried many others but can't beat them. Mike

[Ritchie]

Despite all negative things said about quality control and inconsistencies, it's Otto Link. For alto it's Meyer. They set a kind of standard and are the most copied pieces. But them again, everyone is different and there are other great pieces with different designs.

[Joe Jazz]

Jody Jazz and Meyer!!!!

[Riff]

JJ Babbitt's Otto Link (metal)

[JJK]

Ponzol and Morgan both make good pieces that work right from the get go.....

[T-MAN]

Peter Ponzol and Runyon

[saxtub]

The best hard rubber for me is the Vandoren V5. The best plastic for me is the J. D. Hite Premier. I don't use metal mpcs on alto. 8)

[saxtub]

I should add that I do have a favorite mouthpiece, its a hard rubber Otto Link #5. I had it for years. 8)

[srcsax]

Lamberson
Jon Van Wie
Caravan
Rousseau

[DukoffHollywood]

Could you describe to me a Caravan tenor mouthpiece? I've never played one and there is not much talk about them. Thanks.

[PrinceII]

Custom Grade:

Dave Guardala (good old hand made day only)
Doc Tenney (The Wizard) His Meyer alto helped me won a price in jazz fest.
J Gerber (The Shooting Star) Sir! we are waiting for your tenor line!
Jon Van Wie (became a good old day)
Freddie Gregory (not for everyone)

Production Grade:

Dave Guardala, Lazer Trim (The WWBW made are good too)
Vandoren (not too easy to find a really bad one)
Selmer Paris (The new Soloist and Supersession are killers)
Brancher
Rousseau (Metal Jazz)
Davis Hite (easy blowing, paying too!!)

I am waiting for my coming Dave Zagar!

[guitarbob]

When I was taking lessons in the 70's I was having difficulty getting the tone I was hearing in my head. One day I noticed an Otto Link 5* sitting in my teachers studio and I asked about it, he said he didn't like it but I was welcome to try it. Suddenly the tone I was getting was what I was hearing in my head. I've never played with another mouthpiece since then.

Of course that's a silly attitude, I should be opening my mind to other tones but I've been away frmo the sax for about 20 years, I think I'll work on getting my chops back first.

[PrinceII]

Adding the Dave A Zagar to my recent fav list!

WOW! I couldn't believe that there is such a thing like this on the planet!
It already becomes my main mouthpiece. I am using HotSchool model with my 12x,xxx Selmer MKVI

Strongly recommended!

[gege]

selmer, selmer and selmer
s 80 for playing classical on sopran and alt, new soloist for non classical on alt, never had a chance to play on vintage soloist....
gege

[jazzcat]

Vandoren, Then J.J. Babbit, they make the meyer Otto link Wolf Tayne and a slew of other stuff

[samsax]

Selmer and Runyon.

[king koeller]

Ralph Morgan

[J.Max]

Ralph Morgan

[zxcvbnm]

old thread. Caravan's my favorite by far.

[Peter Stevens]

Adding the Dave A Zagar to my recent fav list!

WOW! I couldn't believe that there is such a thing like this on the planet!
It already becomes my main mouthpiece. I am using HotSchool model with my 12x,xxx Selmer MKVI

Strongly recommended!

:D Tried their latest SBB? :D

[andrewbowie]

Jody Jazz

[Giganova]

Imagine this would have been a poll with like, what, 100 options to chose from?! :D

[Reedsplinter]

Ron Coelho

+1. RPC all the way.

[GAS_Wyo]

Jody Jazz
RPC
Selmer

[SaxDa1]

Zagar Bronze Super Big Bore !!

Wow

[protenorsax]

I have tried Guy Hawkins, Brilhart Level Air, Otto Link, Lawton, Berg Larsen, Morgan L Jazz and Excalibur, J&D Hite, Yamaha, Yanagisawa, Selmer Jazz, Otto Link rod rubber and my favourite for design is J&D Hite hands down, because I am looking for the most complete sound followed by Florida Links and pre Florida Links but nothing after for sure, and I am a great admires of Morgan's facings and the L Jazz but the design itself not so much but it has the distinction, with me of being the only other mouthpiece that I would bother with out of all those others, as they butcher the tone way too much, for special effects and cheap short cuts, or to save money.

Regards
Protenor

[PhatSax]

Zinner

[stu the sax player]

Jody Jazz or Wood Lambersons

[goodsax]

I play my best with
Ponzol M2 (tenor),
Morgan Excalibur (alto) and
LeBayle HR (sop).

However, in general, I've had very positive experiences with
Morgans and
RPCs
on all my reed instruments.

[Alexk]

Lawton, I use them on Bari and Tenor, still deciding on Alto.

[nachoman]

Vandoren for their quality control and all round good design...
Must say I'm a sucker for a good Berg larsen- inconsistent build quality but the best of them superb, fat toned pieces with as much flexibility as anything else i've ever come across.

[Wellison]

Dave Guardala hand made pieces.

Lawton.

Selmer vintages.

[Dr_sax]

old Guardala
and new Zagar SBB

[router9000]

1) Guy Hawkins
2) Runyon
3) Yanagisawa

[estagro]

E. Rousseau

[warp x]

Pomarico
Zinner
Brilhart

[RootyTootoot]

Berg Larsen. :D but i do love them, in fact.

Morgan mouthpieces are nicely made and sound great. I can't claim to have played a lot of the mps mentioned here, though.

Selmer soloists are hard to beat on alto (IMHO). Very versatile.