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SEE WHAT OTHER EBAY BUYERS HAVE TO SAY ABOUT OUR PRODUCTS! PLEASE READ OUR FEEDBACK! SAXGOURMET NECK FOR YAMAHA TENOR SAXOPHONES Here's the VERY BEST money you can invest in your tenor! My unique design will improve intonation and improve repsonse. The built in neck enhancer evens out the timbre throught the range. The underslung octave mechansim gives a smooth precise feel, and is virtually leak proof. The neck features large weights at key nodal points to add mass and instanatly improve the response of troublesome notes such as D2. It is beautifully hand engraved and lightly sprayed with a long lasting gold tint epoxy lacquer. These necks are hand formed and burnished, not machine made! Only the very highest quality bell quality brass is used in their construction. The tenon diameter is 27.50 mm, and may need to be adjusted to fit your horn to give optimum results. This is an easy adjustment that is easily done by any competent repair shop, and the charge for sizing a neck is generally around $10. We cannot size a neck for your individual instrument without having the entire instrument at our shop for fitting. We are glad to do so at no charge provided you pay shipping and insurance charges. This neck is specifically designed for Yamaha 62 and Custom series tenor saxophones, and gives good results on all other Yamaha saxophones from YTS-21 through the currently produced modles. It also gives excellent results on all models of Yanigasawa saxophones. Over five years and many prototypes were devoted to this unique design. There is quite simply nothing else like it on the market today. SHIPPING IS FREE IN THE LOWER 48 STATES OF THE USA INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING IS ONLY $35 WHY YOU SHOULD CONSIDER OUR SAXOPHONE PRODUCTS OVER OTHER SAXOPHONE PRODUCTS SOLD ON EBAY The answer is really quite simple: I make a living designing saxophones and have done so for many years. We are not importers of generic products. All of our products are our unique and proprietary designs and are available nowhere else. Our mouthpieces are all hand faced by me at our shop in New Orleans. Each and every one is individually play tested by me. We fully understand that “it all starts with the mouthpieceâ€, and our designs allow the player to get the very most out of their horn. Our necks have features found on no other neck on the market. There is quite simply nothing else remotely like them. Closely examine your choices on eBay and you will see that our original designs offer features and benefits found nowhere else. Our choices of materials and design specifications are based on years of experience and careful study of how each component interacts with your saxophone. You can buy from us with confidence that our unique experience and expertise will provide you with the very best possible saxophone products. We’ve been doing this since 1972. Here's a review of this product from the Saxnation Forum, posted by forum member Ben Johnson I was visiting Stevels shop last weekend and I got to play a final prototype of the new sax gourmet neck for Tenor. This is the one with the balast weights near the top bend. What do you want to hear about first,the theory or the sound/playability? How about my experience playing the new neck. First, the horn was one of Steve's old secret prototype tenors that he keeps around because it is a good reference. the original neck on that horn is a killer. The horn blows evenly, subtones nicely and goes balls to the wall easily, and all those superlatives, blah, blah, blah... I was using my own Steve Goodson mouthpiece which I love. After a minute of playing the full range of the instrument, Steve said, "Now put that neck on and try it." As usual I avoided looking at the hardware so as to prejudice myself as little as possible. I look at the name, engraving, features AFTER play testing. Well, the neck appears to have moved the target. All those superlatives above were magnified. Primarily, the neck caused the horn to be MUCH more free blowing. The tone appeared to be louder even though it wasn't. I compare that to the guitarist with 8 speakers and the same wattage as the guitarist with one speaker. The 8 speakers move more air and appear louder 50 feet away without hurting anyone's ears. This new neck has the same sort of effect. The overall sound spectrum is wider: More bottom without sounding boomy and more highs without being piercing. As a matter of fact, the highs seem as if they are not louder, just that the range is extended, like maybe there are more upper overtones. Don't know if that is actually the case but the impression I got was exactly that. I actually had to use less diaphragm pressure to play at any given volume. Steve says this is due to the non-conical bore (he's been reading his math books again). The result gives new meaning to the term "free blowing." I felt that I had much better control of the dynamics, that I could go from pianissimo to forte without scrrewing up my throat to keep the timbre and intonation from going wild. Don't know if the dynamic range of the horn actually was greater with the new neck (I didn't try to blow my max notes), but it did have a FUNCTIONALLY greater dynamic range because it encouraged easy shifts in volume. The horn with the SaxGourmet neck just responded so easily to the gas pedal that I did not feel the need to see how far I could take it. One other thing...D2 was noticeably improved when compared to the stock neck. I no longer had to pay attention to my emboucher to make sure that D2 did not lose its overtones. The response of the lower end of the middle range was way better than with the stock neck. Steve says that this is a result of the two bug-eyed masses whose locations he tuned to the nodal point of D. More on that later. So in summation, it's louder, its quieter, it's more free blowing, it brought out more even tonality over the entire range of the horn, it encourages greater dynamics, and it has a deeper and brighter tone at the same time. The sound spectrum is greater resulting in an airy quality without losing any focussed mids. So what about the weights? Here's something I wrote in an email to a friend about this: "I believe the concepts of weights on the neck have a potentially analyzable and theoretical merit. Guitar inventors have done similar things with heavy brass plates on the headstocks of electric guitars where the tuning machines attach. They have also used heavy brass nuts (which have not died out) and massive bridges. Heck, they’ve even built aluminum neck guitars (too much of a good thing…endless sustain…near zero character). The theory would be to promote vibration transmission at locations where it is being absorbed, by providing stiff mass. The weights on the Saxgourmet neck probably span more than one nodal point, but by locating the mass by trial and error, one could find a spot where say 4th line D and neighbor notes above and below are prevented from dampening if they tend to be dead. The extra mass, which is stiff, transmits more vibration energy than just the sheet metal of a normal neck. Now I haven’t tried one of these new necks with the weights removed, but the one thing I can attest to is that this neck totally outperformed an exceptional neck on one of Steve’s super secret stealth prototypes Just generally really free blowing and broad sounding, very pleasant to the ear. I don’t know if it’s snake oil or not, but this neck is really serious stuff. Whatever Steve did with this one, he’s really got a fine design here. Plus it looks like a Buck Rogers ray gun, of course." So that's what I think about the added mass. And, oh yeah, there is a Steve Goodson neck Enhancer built in to the mouthpiece end which acts as a kind of venturi and also seems to help making the horn more free blowing. This neck also has an underslung Octave mechanism that is less likely to be damaged by bumping. Steve says he has made these necks for Selmers and that they are also very compatible with Yamahas, especially the YTS-62 tenor. Powered by eBay Turbo ListerThe free listing tool. 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