{"id":439,"date":"2019-12-05T12:53:05","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T20:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/?p=439"},"modified":"2020-08-12T11:43:16","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T18:43:16","slug":"vandoren-profile-soprano-and-alto-sax-mouthpieces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/?p=439","title":{"rendered":"Vandoren Profile Soprano and Alto Sax Mouthpieces"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/profile-press-1024x427.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-855\" width=\"512\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/profile-press-1024x427.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/profile-press-300x125.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/profile-press-768x320.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/profile-press.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new Vandoren Profile Alto and Soprano Saxophone mouthpieces take the lead in the battle for the heart and soul of classical saxophonists, in my opinion.&nbsp;&nbsp;There are worthy competitors, particularly on alto saxophone, so I tested these new \u2018pieces versus D\u2019Addario Reserve, Selmer Concept, and the previous Vandoren champions, the Optimum SL3, SL4, AL3, and AL4. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This new generation of Vandoren classical saxophone mouthpieces has more than matched their recent challengers.&nbsp;&nbsp;Round, homogenous, warm and centred with a delicious grain to the sound that helps remind us that the saxophone is a <strong><em>woodwind<\/em><\/strong> instrument that just happens to be made of metal.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;They maintain the \u201cshimmer\u201d that I feel soprano and alto voices should exhibit, but add great breadth and depth of tone to that burnished ring. Great clarity, ease of expression and presence.&nbsp;&nbsp;Really, incredibly balanced colourfully vocal mouthpieces.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Competitive mouthpieces that I previously considered very fine indeed, sound somewhat thin in comparison, especially on Soprano.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The pricing is right, too!&nbsp;&nbsp;I\u2019ve said it before: \u201cYou always come back to Vandoren.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Can\u2019t wait for the Profiles for Tenor and Baritone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Vandoren Profile Alto and Soprano Saxophone mouthpieces take the lead in the battle for the heart and soul of classical saxophonists, in my opinion.&nbsp;&nbsp;There are worthy competitors, particularly on alto saxophone, so I tested these new \u2018pieces versus D\u2019Addario Reserve, Selmer Concept, and the previous Vandoren champions, the Optimum SL3, SL4, AL3, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7zTpS-75","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":999,"href":"https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions\/999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}