I've had a terrible congestive cold and been coughing up loogies for days. That looks like the big ones I just flushed down the toilet. If you want Steve, I do the next ones into a baggie and send them to you and only charge half of what Joe is asking for his.
An offer you can not refuse. I am intrigued by the 'air engine' invention.
Does it mean you don't have to blow anymore?
Watch out for the shark bite baffle though. Before you know it you'll be playing Mack The Knife all night long.
That's the first thing that struck me. I've never seem such thick rails on a mpc. I wonder what effect they would have?? The baffle also looks pretty extreme.
I sure wouldn't be tempted to buy something like this (I'd be curious about it, but not enough to spend any $$), but man Steve it would be great to see what you think of it.
C'mon Steve. Can you make an exception and do just ONE bad mouthpiece review for a very good cause? You could help safe some mouthpieces for our children and children's children.
At least in this case it's a $20 MP that's been hacked up.
While I might play one that looked like that, if I did it myself, I sure wouldn't try to sell it for a premium. No, wait, the MPs I've fooled with on my own look better than that one.
According to the Hundred Monkeys Theory, Joe Vassallo may sell one perfect mouthpiece by random chance at any time between now & the year 3267. So stay glued, people.
He sold 112 items on Ebay last year and has a 100% positive rating percentage, so your statistics above don't follow the reality. :bluewink:
Steve, I would for sure go for it. I've seen some ugly pieces that played well and nicer looking ones that played less, as you know it's not all about the looks! :bluewink:
Silly thing is, you'd probably be one of the few who could make it sound good.
Therefore making Joe "the butcher" a sought after mouthpiece technician.
Oh the humanity.
For those who want a baffle, but not too much baffle, or too little baffle, or too much "side" baffle..............oh, my eyes..it burns, it burns.........
When you think about it, Joe Vassallo is not merely erasing history like a one-man Taliban Lite, he is actually a powerful manifestation of entropy, the process by which an orderly universe decays into nothingness.
What gets to me is the is that he never smoothens out or does finishing work to make it presentable. Maybe he's making an artistic statement, a kind of Buddhist notion of not being attached to mouthpieces by defacing them?
Greek Style
Has a string sound with minimum resistance
.053 opening on a #11Rico Metalite
You will probably not receive this exact piece but similar
Comes with satisfaction guaranteed
All work by Joe Vassallo
Whaddaya mean that I may not get that exact piece?!
I have used a M9 on clarinet for some wailing in a 42nd St Pit. It has a stock .062" tip. Used a 2.5 Legere I think. Really difficult to control on the legit parts though.
Actually the "Greek baffle" reminds the map of Greece and all of it's islands
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