I picked up one of the new Otto Link "vintage" pieces tonight and have been putting it through the paces. For the last three or four years I have been playing a modified modern Otto Link hard rubber piece in a 7*. I made some baffle modifications to the piece as well as fixing the facing and making the tip opening actually be .105". My backup piece has been a Morgan 7L which used to be my main piece.
The new "vintage" link blows away anything I have. It subtones effortlessly. Plays up on the top of the horn easily. I can get colors out of the tone that I cannot get out of any other piece I have. It projects wonderfully. My only nit about it is that at mp volumes I think low C sounds a bit hollow. These pieces have a serial number on them - mine is 0271.
I'm tempted to get a second one . . . and it wasn't cheap.
I picked up mine at Bandsource. www.bandsourcecompany.com
The new "vintage" link blows away anything I have. It subtones effortlessly. Plays up on the top of the horn easily. I can get colors out of the tone that I cannot get out of any other piece I have. It projects wonderfully. My only nit about it is that at mp volumes I think low C sounds a bit hollow. These pieces have a serial number on them - mine is 0271.
I'm tempted to get a second one . . . and it wasn't cheap.
I picked up mine at Bandsource. www.bandsourcecompany.com