{"id":988,"date":"2010-02-01T13:14:20","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T18:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/?p=988"},"modified":"2014-01-16T22:39:27","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T03:39:27","slug":"lawton-8-bb-tenor-mouthpiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/lawton-8-bb-tenor-mouthpiece\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawton 8* BB Special Tenor Saxophone Mouthpiece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">This a Lawton 8*BB Special tenor saxophone mouthpiece. \u00a0I&#8217;ve never tried a Lawton before so I was looking forward to playing this one. \u00a0This a special one that Geoff Lawton made without the typical sliding ligature track he usually puts on his mouthpieces.\u00a0This is a great playing mouthpiece. The 8* tip is a bit above what I am used to at .115 but I have a feeling that if I played this for a little bit I would get used to it.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/Lawton 8BB.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border: 0pt none initial;\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/easygallery\/88888894\/Lawton 8BB.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/public.neffmusic.com\/Lawton8BBFront.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/easygallery\/88888894\/Lawton8BBFront.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The bigger tip opening requires a bit more air from me and the intonation is more flexible because of the larger tip. \u00a0I found the tone to be in the middle of the dark\/bright spectrum. \u00a0Depending on how I play I could get it to head in either direction pretty easily. \u00a0To me the tone of the mouthpiece sounded dense and rich. \u00a0Kind of a thick kind of sound. \u00a0The baffle was a pretty high rollover baffle that traveled pretty far into the chamber and squeezed together smoothly as it narrows into the chamber creating a smaller chamber \u00a0that gives you more power I think. \u00a0This is a very nice mouthpiece. \u00a0i think anyone out there that likes a .115 tip would really love this piece. Let me know what you think. \u00a0 \u00a0Steve<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-988-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/images\/mp3\/Lawton%208BB.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/images\/mp3\/Lawton%208BB.mp3\">https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/images\/mp3\/Lawton%208BB.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This a Lawton 8*BB Special tenor saxophone mouthpiece. \u00a0I&#8217;ve never tried a Lawton before so I was looking forward to playing this one. \u00a0This a special one that Geoff Lawton made without the typical sliding ligature track he usually puts on his mouthpieces.\u00a0This is a great playing mouthpiece. The 8* tip is a bit above [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":14543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1120,45],"tags":[273,239,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-988","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tenor-medium-baffle-reviews","8":"category-tenor-mouthpieces","9":"tag-lawton","10":"tag-saxophone-mouthpiece","11":"tag-tenor-mouthpiece","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}