Yamaha Standard Series 6C Tenor Saxophone Mouthpiece

The Standard Series are made out of high-quality phenol resin (plastic) and feature a design based upon the top grade Custom Series. They are extremely consistent in specifications and playing quality, and offer excellent value for their price. The facing of this series is slightly shorter than that of the Custom Series making them easier to play, and easier for beginning students to achieve a rich characteristic saxophone sound. They also are available in a variety of sizes, to suit the needs players of many different styles.

The 6C mouthpiece allows the player more powerful volume and rich tonal variations. Excellent for experienced players.

A mouthpiece affects both how you play and how your instrument sounds in very signifi cant ways. Fit and feel are obviously major factors, but the mouthpiece also exerts a considerable infl uence on your tone, range, and even intonation. The mouthpiece is the point of greatest sound pressure within the instrument, therefore its acoustic qualities — dependent on material, thickness, shape, and other factors — affect the overall sound of the instrument to a remarkable degree. The taper of the instrument extends all the way from the mouthpiece to the bell, so in a very real sense the mouthpiece is an integral part of the instrument’s sound-producing mechanism. A part that must be chosen with the utmost care.

Why Yamaha? Since every player and instrument is different, there can be no single “perfect” mouthpiece. This makes the task of creating top-quality mouthpieces all the more diffi cult. Advanced manufacturing technology is essential, but so is experience. The Yamaha approach to creating superior mouthpieces is to bring experience and technology together in perfect balance: experience in the form of continuous consultation with some of the world’s leading artists — Yamaha has been producing special custom mouthpieces for top artists for decades — and technology in the form of precision computer-controlled machining equipment. In contrast to some other areas of musical-instrument manufacture, mouthpieces are not best crafted by hand. The tolerances that can have a big effect on performance are far too small. Yamaha employs an advanced computer-aided design and manufacturing system that ensures exact dimensions and contours in every single mouthpiece. Shaped cutters are not used because wear and re-sharpening rapidly alter the original shape. Instead, a computer-controlled lathe sculpts the spinning mouthpiece blank precisely to the specifi ed size and shape. Continuous monitoring and a special cutter design guarantee that prescribed tolerances are always maintained. Another advantage of computer control is that a constant cutterto-workpiece speed can be maintained relative to the position of the cutter. This ensures a perfect fi nish, eliminating the need for fi nal hand-polishing which could result in distortion and inconsistencies from mouthpiece to mouthpiece.