Yibuy #7 Golden Brass B-flat Soprano Saxophone Mouthpiece with Ligature Reed

I set my expectations low on this mouthpiece as I own several expensive mouthpieces. Bought this with the remaining balance on an Amazon Gift Card. What a surprise! This Yibuy Soprano Sax Mouthpiece plays amazingly well!I just played LIVE and received compliments from other Sax Players about my tone - which if you’ve been playing for any length of time know that the mouthpiece is only part of the equation. Long tones, reed choice, and it’s the Soprano so that in and of itself invites all kinds of challenges!Other reviews mention that this mouthpiece doesn’t fit their neck. Here is a “fix”:Buy some Plumber’s Tape (cost: approximately $2.00) and carefully and evenly apply it to your Sax neck. Since this tape is form-fitting, you can easily get your mouthpiece to fit any neck or cork that is too small for the mouthpiece.Also, at some point, you may opt to go to a Saxophone repair shop and get a new cork. But probably best to use the Plumber’s Tape until you’re sure about how long you’ll stick with this or any mouthpiece.Lastly, some Soprano Sax Players will tell you to push the mouthpiece as far down the neck as possible so it plays in tune. It’s up to you to experiment with this, along with all the other important aspects such as reeds, embouchure, and long tones.This Yibuy is worth every penny and very please with its response - as well as the response I just received from those who heard me play it!

Wow!! The open chamber projects well. The tone is round and mellow. As you know Soprano intonation is not balanced. Well, with this mouthpiece the intonation balances easier. And the ombeture naturally adapts to this mouthpiece. I can hit all the high notes as well as the lower pitches evenly without pinching. However, get a Rovner ligature to fit. Makes a big difference.

I got the soprano #7 gold. I've tried it out a few times now only on an Antigua horn and a Lazarro horn, both purchased on Amazon - needless to say not traditional name brand sopranos.For me on those 2 horns, in order to get in tune with A 440 on a chromatic tuner, this mouthpiece has to be pushed on as far as it will go before a ridge in the chamber stops it from going on any further, and that is with for me a fairly firm embouchure. And that's using a strength 2.0 regular Rico broken in reed. I'm a home hobby player and I expect results may vary some depending on embouchure and reed strength. If I needed to tune a bit above 440 - not really sure where that might happen - this mouthpiece wouldn't work (I've noticed since I 1st posted this review that a ridge is also in the chamber on the Van Doren and the Selmer Cstar so it seems that is a normal design and on the same 2 horns, Lazarro and Antigua, it's the same issue, no room to to adjust above A 440 if needed for me with my present embouchure and reed choice.)Otherwise as far as I can tell it plays in the vicinity of a quality name brand mouthpiece. I'd say a fairly bright, pretty decent focused sound. The only marking I find is a numeral 7 engraved on the shank. This #7 is for sure more open than the Cstar, more like the s25 Van Doren. There is some rough surface finish on the inside, but in general the mouthpiece looks to be fairly well made to my non pro player eye. The ligature fits fine. I have played a number of different sax mouthpieces over the years. I put my something like 40 year old Dukoff and Otto Link tenors in the pic and also my Van Doren soprano. The Yibuy is on a straight neck and a Selmer Cstar is on a curved neck both from the student Antigua. For the record I used to play in community college jazz band way back. I still plan to get a traditional name brand metal soprano mouthpiece down the line. I understand the idea of saving the cost of this item and just trying out name brand mouthpieces at a local music store, but I also like the idea of having this at home for a few months or however long to check the sound against a hard rubber mouthpiece before I buy a name brand. After that it's basically a paperweight. For now this will give me an idea of a metal mouthpiece sound on soprano. For under 35 bucks delivered I'll keep it.

Ridiculous that it's so oversized that it's not even close to fitting my sax. My Berg Larsen and other mouthpiece fit perfectly. Very disappointing.

It didn’t work for me! I couldn’t play with this mouthpiece. Not a good quality for me.

Soprano sax mouthpiece is nice and has a very bright sound

Very well made, just not what I was looking for exactly.I was asking too much to get what I was looking for so cheaply.Still better than the cheap plastic mouthpiece that came with my sax.I wish I had a couple of thousand dollars to just blow on a nice soprano sax.

This mouthpiece really improved the sound of a Lazzaro soprano saxophone. It didn't play well with the factory mouthpiece that came with the horn. Now it plays well.