{"id":53262,"date":"2023-09-18T10:24:05","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T17:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/?p=53262"},"modified":"2023-09-19T07:39:09","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T14:39:09","slug":"an-unexpected-outcome-at-windworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/2023\/an-unexpected-outcome-at-windworks\/","title":{"rendered":"An Unexpected Outcome At Windworks"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"window<\/a>Since COVID closed down the world’s longest undefended border for over a year, I haven’t been down to the US very often. When I have been down visiting my friends, I haven’t had many chances to do any shopping. That all changed earlier this month, when my long-time friend Kenton and I went to our favourite music store: Bellingham Wind Works<\/a>. <\/p>\n

I was staying with Kenton and his wife Wendy, in Anacortes, WA for a few days. Since we’re both saxophone players, he and I decided to spend an afternoon trying out horns at Wind Works.<\/p>\n

Flutes & sax mouthpieces: what could go wrong?<\/h3>\n

Kenton was looking to upgrade his flute. Me? I wasn’t looking for anything. When I go to Kat and Ed’s shop, I am usually interested in trying out the various used tenors and baris they have on consignment. <\/p>\n

Unfortunately their selection of used horns was rather boring this month, so I opted instead to focus on trying the various used, tenor Dukoff mouthpieces they have, which have been touched up by Theo Wanne personally. Since I absolutely love the soprano and alto Dukoff pieces I got in 2020 that received Theo’s personal touch-up, I was eager to try out some tenor pieces as well. <\/p>\n

Only one minor issue with the mouthpiece play-testing: I didn’t have a tenor sax with me. <\/p>\n

Since I had already determined that there were no really interesting vintage, or used tenors for me to try out, Marcel suggested\u2014I think it was Marcel, or maybe it was me, I’m not sure anymore now\u2014that I use the brand new, Keilwerth, SX90R Shadow that was on the wall.<\/p>\n

Since I hadn’t played a Shadow before, I thought: Why the hell not. Let’s see how it compares to the regular lacquer SX90R that I tried a few months ago. (Yes, it was very nice, but not nice enough for me to ditch my vintage babies.)<\/p>\n

So I took the Shadow off the wall; along with a variety of about 5 touched-up Dukoff tenor mouthpieces; plus my own Dukoff 7*; and went into a room to try everything out. This is when stuff went completely off the rails. <\/p>\n

How a JK SX90R Shadow tenor knocked me on my ass<\/h3>\n

I completely fell in love with a Dukoff 5 piece, that none other than Bob Carpenter himself had completely redone to a tip opening of .109. Since I only brought one L\u00e9g\u00e8re reed with me, I didn’t have much to work with, so Marcel was kind enough to find me some Fiberreeds to try out as well. <\/p>\n

What I couldn’t get over, was how this Shadow performed. <\/p>\n