Rico Royal Graftonite B5 Tenor Sax Mouthpiece

A really great mouthpiece at an affordable price. Plays easily in all octaves from low Bb to high F#. I use with a java green 2.5 reed. I have much more expensive mouthpieces and this one is just as good. I would recommend for all beginners to advanced players.

I can't understand why this mouthpiece was so cheap. It's well made and performs like a much more expensive mouthpiece. I have a 3 reed on for use with my 1970s tenor sax and the tone is great. Easy to blow too unlike other cheap mouthpieces. Get one!

Budget mpc which you’ll replace as soon as you get better.

Worked perfect, returned item as I got rid of the instrument

Quite impressed with the sound. The rail that the reed sits on takes a bit of getting used to

Did not wirk for me, not sure if the tip is lsrge for beginners or its just difficult to play.

Very good quality for the price

I am just about intermediate sax playing standard and have three Graftonite sax mouthpieces, two for a tenor and one alto. The first I bought some time ago was a B5 for a tenor and I still use it as my principal tenor mouthpiece. With the right medium soft reed is easy to blow across the full range, and produces a rich ‘Ben Webster’ sound with my horn but, if required, will play loud, and I am fully satisfied with it. The second tenor mouthpiece is a C3 which I recently acquired as-new but cheap off an auction site but I have found it is more difficult to control, and with the same range of reeds I use on the B5 tenor will screech at the top end if I don’t get my embouchure right. So I don’t use it much. The third mouthpiece is the alto and also a B5, and the selection of a B5 was based on my favourable tenor B5 experience. But I have found it difficult to blow, it has a slightly muffled sound, and I haven’t really got on with it. I also found it was a very tight fit on the neck cork. So I bought an alto Yamaha 6C to try, and found for me is much much better, easier to blow across the range and control and I will stick with that. Plus I like the 6C sound. So my experience is a bit hit and miss with these Graftonite mouthpieces but since they are quite cheap its worth buying one to try if you want an upgrade from one that came with a budget saxophone purchase. Finally they are very durable, but the step at the mouthpiece side rails compared to most other mouthpieces is a bit odd and you can lose air from it when playing, especially with the alto version, unless you have a really tight embouchure.