Marantz Slant Legacy - New HR Tenor Sax mpc with video from Joel Frahm + hi-res photos
The newest offering from my shop: The Marantz "Slant Legacy" HR mouthpiece for tenor sax. I'm also very excited to announce that NYC saxophonist Joel Frahm personally stopped by the shop and bought one of the mouthpieces from the 1st batch. He's now using it at gigs all over NYC and abroad.
I've got a video of Joel playing it uploaded at a Youtube! link here:
The Slant Legacy is the newest mouthpiece in my Legacy sax mouthpiece line, which is a line of mouthpieces that uses modern technology to recreate the most sought after vintage models for sax mouthpieces.
This particular piece is hand finished and sold exclusively through JL Woodwind Repair on 12th St. in Manhattan, which is the new and high quality NYC repair shop for all things saxophone where I've partnered with head repairman John Leadbetter to offer NYC saxophonists a one-stop-shop for horn repair, mouthpiece refacing, custom saxophone parts, custom mouthpiece fabrication, as well as in-store demos of all our saxophone and custom mouthpiece inventory items for local customers.
The Slant Legacy is a close-as-possible recreation of the classic Slant Signature Link design made with the absolute highest quality European hard rubber rod bar stock we are aware of in the world today. The mouthpieces start out as bars of hard rubber. They are then machined into rough blanks using a highly consistent CNC milling method, and are then completely hand finished including tip size setup, custom facing work, removal of all machining marks, play testing, borderline obsessive tweaking during play testing, and extensive hand polishing before they're considered ready for sale.
The result is that since moving the Marantz Custom Mouthpiece workshop out of my home workspace and into JL Woodwind Repair in Manhattan this year, numerous professional players on the NY scene including amazing altoist Pat Carroll http://www.patcarrollmusic.com/ , tenor/alto wizard Dan Pratt http://www.danpratt.com/ , the one and only Joel Frahm http://www.joelfrahm.com/ , Michael Scott in Memphis who performs with Aretha Franklin's band, as well as numerous other Broadway and touring musicians have started moving over to Marantz Legacy saxophone mouthpieces.
Pricing is set at $575 for the black HR model. This mouthpiece will also become available in some marbled HR colors soon as well at $600, but the marbled colors are still in the works. I'll update the thread when the alternative colors become available. Pricing is high which we're aware of, but they are meant to compete directly with other mouthpiece makers in the same boutique hand finished field. We also have a lot of overhead costs to cover that result from both the high quality of materials & extensive manufacturing methods used to make these, which are both aimed at making the best mouthpieces possible. Plus, the time involved in making just 1 of these is many hour's worth and you know what they say: Quality doesn't come cheap, and quality is our top priority.
Pictures below, and feel free to ask any questions! I don't think a better sound demo could be made than the one Joel so generously gave us, but here's another video demo of me testing out the Slant Legacy piece at a larger tip size of 8* .115" on a MKVI 209,XXX tenor sax which is also for sale through JL Woodwind Repair: https://www.facebook.com/matt.marantz/videos/vob.504693466/10153218245683467/?type=2&theater
The newest offering from my shop: The Marantz "Slant Legacy" HR mouthpiece for tenor sax. I'm also very excited to announce that NYC saxophonist Joel Frahm personally stopped by the shop and bought one of the mouthpieces from the 1st batch. He's now using it at gigs all over NYC and abroad.
I've got a video of Joel playing it uploaded at a Youtube! link here:
The Slant Legacy is the newest mouthpiece in my Legacy sax mouthpiece line, which is a line of mouthpieces that uses modern technology to recreate the most sought after vintage models for sax mouthpieces.
This particular piece is hand finished and sold exclusively through JL Woodwind Repair on 12th St. in Manhattan, which is the new and high quality NYC repair shop for all things saxophone where I've partnered with head repairman John Leadbetter to offer NYC saxophonists a one-stop-shop for horn repair, mouthpiece refacing, custom saxophone parts, custom mouthpiece fabrication, as well as in-store demos of all our saxophone and custom mouthpiece inventory items for local customers.
The Slant Legacy is a close-as-possible recreation of the classic Slant Signature Link design made with the absolute highest quality European hard rubber rod bar stock we are aware of in the world today. The mouthpieces start out as bars of hard rubber. They are then machined into rough blanks using a highly consistent CNC milling method, and are then completely hand finished including tip size setup, custom facing work, removal of all machining marks, play testing, borderline obsessive tweaking during play testing, and extensive hand polishing before they're considered ready for sale.
The result is that since moving the Marantz Custom Mouthpiece workshop out of my home workspace and into JL Woodwind Repair in Manhattan this year, numerous professional players on the NY scene including amazing altoist Pat Carroll http://www.patcarrollmusic.com/ , tenor/alto wizard Dan Pratt http://www.danpratt.com/ , the one and only Joel Frahm http://www.joelfrahm.com/ , Michael Scott in Memphis who performs with Aretha Franklin's band, as well as numerous other Broadway and touring musicians have started moving over to Marantz Legacy saxophone mouthpieces.
Pricing is set at $575 for the black HR model. This mouthpiece will also become available in some marbled HR colors soon as well at $600, but the marbled colors are still in the works. I'll update the thread when the alternative colors become available. Pricing is high which we're aware of, but they are meant to compete directly with other mouthpiece makers in the same boutique hand finished field. We also have a lot of overhead costs to cover that result from both the high quality of materials & extensive manufacturing methods used to make these, which are both aimed at making the best mouthpieces possible. Plus, the time involved in making just 1 of these is many hour's worth and you know what they say: Quality doesn't come cheap, and quality is our top priority.
Pictures below, and feel free to ask any questions! I don't think a better sound demo could be made than the one Joel so generously gave us, but here's another video demo of me testing out the Slant Legacy piece at a larger tip size of 8* .115" on a MKVI 209,XXX tenor sax which is also for sale through JL Woodwind Repair: https://www.facebook.com/matt.marantz/videos/vob.504693466/10153218245683467/?type=2&theater