Super Tone Master

[Perfect Pitch]

Pretentious name huh? These have been a favoured mouthpiece by some great players on Tenor

George Coleman 7*
Dexter Gordon (Florida)
Stanley Turrentine 8
Ben Webster (NY)

http://www.mouthpieceheaven.com/content/player.htm

I love my 7* (USA stamp, facing no. on body, white box) and have just bought an 8* (USA stamp, facing no. on shank, gold box) which is much louder and has a table 3mm longer. Does anyone know the reason for the differences or any other info than is here

http://www.mouthpieceheaven.com/misc/ottolink.htm

to share ? Thanks :mrgreen:

[cd]

I use a 9* STM on tenor and a 7* STM on soprano. I too think the larger sizes are louder. I trialed an 8* at the time I got the 9*. Main difference was bigger low end with the 9*, almost like a baritone. 8* was great too, generally a slightly thinner sound than the 9*. I think these mpcs have great all around sounds. Sound is also quite flexible depending on reed choice and how you blow them.

[Perfect Pitch]

an 8* Link is alot more open (115/1000ths of an inch)
but you can get some real power outta it if you push. That piece is
reasonably bright too.
The Winslow lig certainly makes the reed firmer on the table of the
mpc - I found Vandoren 3s were great. Rico anythings were terrible -
you've gotta use a firm reed ! Although this goes against the 'open mpc, softer reed theory

Seller of my 8*

[10M_Man]

first good piece was a old florida (no USA) STM 9 that i played for a week with a bump on the tip rail before figuring out i had to get it fixed. :o the result after was a slightly widened opening, which compared to before was waaay easier to blow. i had got it pretty cheap at a pawnshop after i had been playing sax for 2 or 3 weeks.. being a total neophyte i knew pretty much nothing about horns and mouthpieces, but i recognized it from pictures on my jazz albums (coltrane, mobley) so had to get it! i really had no idea that 9 was that big an opening. i had just been using a cheap plastic piece that was included with my first horn, a second hand armstrong. i used it for a year with my student level horn until i got my 348K 10M. it was just too much work to blow that heavy 10M with the opened up 9, and the guy selling me the 10M sold me a guardala piece that worked better for me. after i got used to the conn i was able to use the link again, and i went back and forth between the link and the guardala depending on the gig.

i still have it and i still do like it a lot. it has a great ben webster kind of hugeness but is not stuffy. it has some edge to it as well. i like it for certain tones and i'll keep it for that big sound that comes in handy once in a while. i'm quite shocked to see what some of them are going for on ebay now. i guess some of them are really sought after.

i didn't record much with it but if you want to hear it used in a song, you can check out this MP3 of a song i played on quite some time ago. (http://newmusiccanada.com/player/player.cfm?Track_Id=5066)