Here we have a John Thomas tenor saxophone mouthpiece. I actually played this about a year ago but the recording has been sitting on my computer since. I totally forgot about it until this morning when I read a thread on “Sax on the Web” asking about John Thomas and his mouthpiece work.
This mouthpiece is a .115 tip opening and is a bit larger than I usually prefer. It had a big robust sound to it that leaned towards the brighter side of the tonal spectrum in my opinion. Because of the larger tip opening, I found that I could blow tons of air through this mouthpiece. It is one of the louder mouthpieces i have played on my website. I didn’t feel totally comfortable with the larger tip so I put the recording in a file on my computer and forgot about it. I just listened to it this morning though and think you can get a good idea of the sound of the mouthpiece from it.
If you are interested in John’s mouthpieces you can contact him on his website. I hope in the future I can get a chance to try a .105-.110 tip which is more to my liking. Let me know what you think. Steve
Beautiful tone! I’d really love to hear this in a more comfortable tip, but the sound is great on it! I might just have to grab one