Cannonball (T5-BiceB) Raven™ (tenor)

Peter plays the Cannonball (T5-BiceB) Raven™ - Iced Black Nickel Body / Black Nickel Keys professional level Big Bell® tenor saxophone Series. It helps him to create a Big Bold Warm sound and yet allows him to play with the most subtle nuances. Each Big Bell Stone Series saxophone comes standard with two hand-customized necks. The first is the original style neck, creating a traditional sound. The second is the FAT NECK® which has the octave tube is on the under side of the neck, creating less resistance of air-flow, resulting in a FAT sound - more lows, more mids, less highs. Visually, the Big Bell Stone Series combines medieval art with nature's stunning beauty. Sixteen semi-precious stones form the deep earth adorn specially designed keys, necks and lightweight guards. The combination of the stones, the hand-drawn design of the guards and engravings, and the unique array of finishes make each saxophone an art piece in itself.

WThe Big Bell® Stone Series™ Saxophones are designed to be able to play without limits, feeling each note vibrate in your hands.

Otto Link Super Tone Master (*10)

Mouthpeace with the rich sound quality of a larger bore rubber mouthpiece for exceptional style and sound. A wide selection of facings offer superior tone quality and projection with complete control, making Otto Link Mouthpieces a top choice of professionals. The popular Super Tone Master-bell metal Otto Link tenor sax mouthpiece has been selected by artists for over 50 years to capture and hold professional quality sounds.The Otto Link New York Model has a large chamber and darker sound.Want your music soft and mellow? Bright and edgy? Have it your way with the all-new RG, by Otto Link. The Easy-to-blow Otto Link RG Mouthpiece has a unique parabolic chamber for big, dynamic sound at all projection levels. A hard rubber tooth protector runs full bite length; the thickness encourages an open embouchure allowing a big sound. Otto Link Metal RG Mouthpieces come in a satin stainless steel finish. Choose from three tip openings: .108", .118", .128"

The New Vintage Model Tenor Sax Mouthpiece is a current production mouthpiece which recaptures the Otto Link sound of yesteryear, setting it apart from the current Otto Link. Several years in the making, the Otto Link Vintage mouthpiece incorporates changes both inside and out; body shape, bore, chamber, baffle, side rails and tuning.

Rico Jazz Select Reeds

2011 Cane Comparison - New Reserve Cane vs. Old RJS Cane

Reeds - such a simple concept to some, such a beyond tedious one to others. Reed quality is the largest single complaint that we receive from professional players. They commonly will give us accounts of going through 3+ boxes of reeds and not being able to find a single one that they like and can use. This has driven many players towards the synthetic reeds. While most will admit that they still prefer the performance of a "great cane reed" over that of the synthetic, finding that "great" cane reed is a never ending quest.

So players settle.

Rico, a name that has sadly over the past decade been associated with simply student reeds, has finally listened. Rico was purchased by D'Addario, a major manufacturer of musical products. D'Addario wanted to change what the name Rico means to the player and they knew that the only way to do it was with quality.

Rico has completely changed everything about their reed production process. They brought in state of the art equipment to sort and grade cane as well as better equipment for cutting and producing reeds.

Enter the Rico Reserve product line. The Reserve products from Rico use only the highest quality lower internode cane. This cane is the oldest and densest cane available from the cane chute. By using only this cane, reeds cut from it have better consistency from reed to reed and better overall performance.

Rico Jazz Select reeds are now using this select Reserve Cane.

Want to see the difference for yourself? Take a look below. We took a box of older Rico Jazz Select reeds and a box of the newer reeds using the new cane and compared them side by side for you. Both of these boxes were sealed reeds. Specifically, these are soprano sax unfiled. The old reeds were strength 2S whereas the newer reeds are 2H. You can physically see the inconsistency in color and fibers on the older cane whereas the newer cane is consistently dense in fiber and uniform in cane color.

Sennheiser EW100 wireless microphone

For (live) vocals Peter use the Evolution eW100 series is a low-cost system with four preset switchable channels, which can be manually re-programmed within the frequency band from a choice of 1440 frequencies.

The Wireless 100 series offers a number of hand-held transmitter microphone systems, ideal for vocal applications.

The fixed receivers are true-diversity units powered by a supplied mains adapter, with back-lit LCD display showing RF and audio level, and selected channel. Each receiver is a half-width 1U enclosure, mountable using the optional GA2 rack-mount kit, or used stand-alone. Each receiver is supplied with two telescopic 50ohm BNC antennas and audio output is through a balanced 6.35mm A-guage jack and balanced XLR.