Great video and fascinating to watch. Not a chance in hell I will try this with my mouthpieces, even my 4C! I feel like a kid invited to watch the big boys play.
Something I did that might benefit you is to use dowels for handle grip wrapped in cork inserted into shank to stabilize while sanding. You do great and innovative work!
Great watching someone doing all the work. Straight after watching and due to lacking your skills I thought that I may experiment with get a cheap mouthpiece and stick various shaped obstacles or coins inside!
It's a shame your channel doesn't get many viewers or subs, it's great quality and the videos are actually quite interesting and fit what I enjoy. Anyways, I love the vids and hope you grow more
Spencer, I wanted to thank you for sharing all your achievements and knowledge with the rest of the world. I am starting to build saxophone mouthpieces and necks with a very particular wood, each piece can be 1500 to 3000 years old (dead tree wood) and I have been guided by your videos for the development of the nozzles. I would like to know if there is the possibility of taking a course with you or something like that, so I can solve my doubts? If it is not possible, I congratulate you anyway and thank you enormously.
Wow thanks! I do plan to make quite a few more kind of educational mouthpiece videos in the near future, like showing many different styles of internal geometry and how they sound, so maybe that would be of help to you? As far as wood mouthpieces go, I would honestly have to say that I don't recommend using wood at all, it is not a dimensionally stable material especially over long term use of being wet/ dry/ wet. A 3000 year old mouthpiece does however seem interesting, so the last thing I would want to do is to tell you not to. I say go for it and see how it plays!
@@spencerbrodhead The good thing about this wood is that it is part of the beginning of the branches of the "Araucaria", so it is full of resin, very compact, a little iridescent and almost water-repellent. Following the steps in your videos (thank God) I managed to make a semi-functional one. A luthier here in Chile is helping me finish it. Yes, geometry and its equivalent in sound is something I haven't researched yet so that would be great. I congratulate you again and thank you for your contributions! I hope that very soon I can send you a gift mouthpiece as a thank you! We keep in touch, I always follow you so it will be easy.
Never touched a sax, so not sure how I got here, but not complaining. I imagine the beginner one is the way it is because it's easier for a beginner to get a more stable (if less refined) sound? And once you develop a stronger and more nuanced mouth you can handle a little more horsepower? Or is it just technically more difficult to produce one like the mod?
as a brass player I have no idea why this is in my feed, but this was really cool to watch
Great video and fascinating to watch. Not a chance in hell I will try this with my mouthpieces, even my 4C! I feel like a kid invited to watch the big boys play.
Thanks!
Something I did that might benefit you is to use dowels for handle grip wrapped in cork inserted into shank to stabilize while sanding. You do great and innovative work!
Thanks! Yeah that works well too, I've used dowel setups like that especially for holding the mouthpiece at the buffing wheel
Best refacing video since mojo posted all his information years ago.
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks! Yeah Mojo's videos are great
Great watching someone doing all the work. Straight after watching and due to lacking your skills I thought that I may experiment with get a cheap mouthpiece and stick various shaped obstacles or coins inside!
Go for it!
The mouthpiece turned that normal sax into Pink Panther's sax.
It's a shame your channel doesn't get many viewers or subs, it's great quality and the videos are actually quite interesting and fit what I enjoy. Anyways, I love the vids and hope you grow more
Thanks! Yeah I don't post videos very often so that's why, I'm going to be posting here a lot more now actually!
absolutely insane player and a great rework on the mouthpiece
Thank you!
Oh boy i've been waiting for your next video. Thanks for delivering.
Spencer, I wanted to thank you for sharing all your achievements and knowledge with the rest of the world. I am starting to build saxophone mouthpieces and necks with a very particular wood, each piece can be 1500 to 3000 years old (dead tree wood) and I have been guided by your videos for the development of the nozzles. I would like to know if there is the possibility of taking a course with you or something like that, so I can solve my doubts? If it is not possible, I congratulate you anyway and thank you enormously.
Wow thanks! I do plan to make quite a few more kind of educational mouthpiece videos in the near future, like showing many different styles of internal geometry and how they sound, so maybe that would be of help to you? As far as wood mouthpieces go, I would honestly have to say that I don't recommend using wood at all, it is not a dimensionally stable material especially over long term use of being wet/ dry/ wet. A 3000 year old mouthpiece does however seem interesting, so the last thing I would want to do is to tell you not to. I say go for it and see how it plays!
@@spencerbrodhead The good thing about this wood is that it is part of the beginning of the branches of the "Araucaria", so it is full of resin, very compact, a little iridescent and almost water-repellent.
Following the steps in your videos (thank God) I managed to make a semi-functional one. A luthier here in Chile is helping me finish it.
Yes, geometry and its equivalent in sound is something I haven't researched yet so that would be great.
I congratulate you again and thank you for your contributions!
I hope that very soon I can send you a gift mouthpiece as a thank you! We keep in touch, I always follow you so it will be easy.
Just Discovered you, amazing! Love your content
Never touched a sax, so not sure how I got here, but not complaining.
I imagine the beginner one is the way it is because it's easier for a beginner to get a more stable (if less refined) sound? And once you develop a stronger and more nuanced mouth you can handle a little more horsepower?
Or is it just technically more difficult to produce one like the mod?
Yep that's how it works in general, a larger tip opening takes more pressure to play but gives you more tonal flexibility
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