Our company mission at ZAGAR® has been the ongoing quest to discover the ‘holy grail’ of all mouthpiece designs.
The Zagarsax motto: ‘Truth in Saxophone Mouthpiece Technology’; this represents an ongoing quest to reveal the acoustical 'secrets' of the highly specialized art form of mouthpiece design and construction.
The Zagarsax aim is to produce the highest possible quality with a view to consistency and modern-day precision.
Since 1994, the Zagarsax company has been re-discovering the long lost ‘secrets’ of traditional mouthpiece design and construction. Acoustically correct designs and construction have assisted 1000's of players world-wide to end their epic 'search', and to finally start playing the saxophone.
About our 2010 product range:
The key theme in 2010 is to bring Baffle-free™ awareness to the broader sax community. Our latest 2010 mouthpiece range represents the epitome of acoustically correct sax mouthpiece design and construction.
Zagarsax mouthpiece designs are 'baffle-free', insofar that the most critical volumetric area (entry into the mouthpiece) is consistent with the original equations of Adophe Sax - the original inventor of the saxophone.
Whereas other makers/manufactureres have resorted to baffles and/or wedges (acoustically imperfect constrictions within the critical entry side of the mouthpiece in order to brighten or add projection), Zagarsax has consistently and relentlessly aimed to create brilliance and projection through puritanical acoustical means that do not compromise the response and eveness of timbre over the instrument. Through the understanding of an acoustic phonomenon known as Internal Resonance Coefficient (IRC), acoustical resonance becomes a realization. High IRC effectively 'amplifies' the natural acoustic (sonic) sound wave induced into the material 'matrix'.
IRC and a thorough knowledge of 'Materials Science' has facilitated the zagarsax team to produce powerful and brilliant design concepts with the following unparalleled attributes:
• superior generic saxophone tone ('balanced' sax timbre)
• super-even response;
• even registers and 'breaks' throughout;
• perfect intonation.
Another highly critical area in mouthpiece design is entry chamber volume. By studying many 'older' mouthpieces, the zagarsax team had discovered that this entry space into the chamber is the most critical. Critical Chamber Space - or CCS - is positioned directly behind the tip tail, and is measured up to the point where the theoretical tapered (expansion chamber) section of the mouthpiece terminates.
Critical Chamber Space, or CCS™ is a neglected area in mouthpiece design. This extremely sensitive area represents 'entry volume', and should not be confused with 'chamber exit volume'.
(It should be noted that exceedingly large chamber exit volumes contribute to a 'woolly' or stuffy sounding mouthpiece that will lack power and projection - the exact antithesis of the Zagarsax Baffle-free™ mouthpiece philosophy.)
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