Saxquest 'The Lead' Alto Saxophone Mouthpiece

This is the Lead hard rubber mouthpiece for alto sax!

Saxquest took some of the very best New York Meyer Bros pieces, the truly greatest playing mouthpieces we have been able to accumulate over the history of Saxquest, and using them as a template, created what we think to be the best “lead” alto sax mouthpiece you'll find.

The trick with all of the Saxquest mouthpieces was to build in harmonic complexity while manipulating sound concepts such as brightness and darkness all the while maximizing the efficiency and keeping the resistance point to where it matches the chamber volume and gels with a variety of tip openings.

The “Lead” is manufactured from solid German bar stock hard rubber. It is turned on a CNC controlled high precision lathe and then milled on an absolute state of the art 5-axis vertical mill. Shaping of the throat, baffle & tip rail; profiling of the chamber; under-cutting of the sidewalls, and cutting of the window is all accomplished using three strokes per pass. This results in fabulously tight tolerances which leads to incredible consistency from piece to piece.

Ligatures:

In order to keep the price on all of our mouthpieces at a lower premium we sell them without a ligature and cap set. If you would like to add a ligature to the purchase please make the selection from the drop down menu while adding the mouthpiece to your cart.