Key Features
- The ideal jazz mouthpiece
- Manufactured and hand-finished in the USA
- Designed by saxophone legend Eugene Rousseau
- Produces a full range of tonal colours
OFFLINE Rousseau Studio Jazz Alto Saxophone Mouthpiece, 7 Overview
The Rousseau Studio Jazz alto sax mouthpiece is one of the best all-round jazz mouthpieces around. When designing the Studio Jazz mouthpiece, Rousseau had one main goal - to produce a tone that can cut through an ensemble, but without sounding too shrill. So that's exactly what he did.
Everything about the Rousseau Studio Jazz mouthpiece has been designed for jazz musicians. The wider tip opening found on the Studio Jazz is ideal for bending notes, while the small chamber ensures your tone can soar across an ensemble.
Each and every Rousseau mouthpiece is 100 made in America. Once completed, the baffles and tip rails are expertly hand-finished by saxophone specialists at the JodyJazz factory. Each mouthpiece is then play tested to ensure perfection.
Product Ref: 174696
Full Description
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Sometimes one mouthpiece is enough. If you're looking to have one mouthpiece for your jazz performances, then the Rousseau Studio Jazz mouthpiece is for you. You'll find it has an excellent response with an even scale across all registers making it very easy to play. It can even deliver a fantastic tone in the low register when playing soft and sub tone.
To ensure you have a balanced sound with great projection, Rousseau designed the Studio Jazz mouthpiece with a unique wedged baffle. He then added a smaller chamber to the Studio Jazz mouthpiece to ensure your bright tone can soar across the top of an ensemble. The larger tips found on the Rousseau Studio Jazz mouthpiece range are ideal for bending notes.
The Rousseau design
The Rousseau design all started when Dr Rousseau couldn't find a good enough commercial mouthpiece to recommend to his students - so he made his own! Rousseau actually learned about woodwind design and acoustics from one of the finest acousticians since Adolph Sax - Charles Houvenaghel. Heavily inspired by the mouthpiece that Marcel Mule gave him in 1961, Rousseau finally launched the famous "R" series of mouthpieces - Rousseau's best selling range.
About Rousseau
Chicago born and bred, Eugene Rousseau is known as one of the finest saxophone players around. So good in fact, Rousseau was a chief consultant for Yamaha's saxophone research team, continuously contributing to the development of their instruments and mouthpieces. Rousseau has had the pleasure of completing many musical firsts, such as the first-ever solo saxophone recitals in Paris, Berlin, Vienna, London, and Amsterdam. Even saxophone legend Marcel Mule described Rousseau as "a brilliant saxophonist and distinguished artist".
In 2019 Rousseau contacted Jody Espina at JodyJazz Mouthpieces asking if he would be interested in acquiring Rousseau Mouthpieces. Without hesitation, Jody jumped at the opportunity, and at the start of 2020 the acquisition was made official. This means every Rousseau mouthpiece goes through JodyJazz's rigorous quality control, hand-finished process, and playtest. So now you can enjoy the ingenious designs from Rousseau, and know each and every mouthpiece has been manufactured to the highest possible quality.
Specifications
- Tip Opening: .081'' (2.06mm)
- Includes:
- Rousseau Studio Jazz Alto Saxophone Mouthpiece, 7
- Deluxe Mouthpiece Pouch
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