Saxscape Uptown Tenor Sax Mouthpiece

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Saxscape Uptown Tenor Sax Mouthpiece

This Saxscape Uptown Tenor Sax Mouthpiece is in unused condition. All Saxscape models are designed, precision machined, and tested by Ken Barry, whose mouthpiece concepts are informed by an eclectic gigging career of over 30 years. “I’ve spent many thousands of hours studying the work of the great mouthpiece makers, and the sound approaches of especially tenor greats John Coltrane and Michael Brecker. I owe many thanks to the great musicians in New York City and around the globe who have been playing Saxscape pieces and helping guide these designs over the last 15 years.”

Saxscape mouthpieces are manufactured in the USA from the highest quality stable materials. Delrin is an FDA safety approved polymer which is extremely tough, while maintaining highly exact dimensions.  To clean, wash with warm water and soap.

Saxscape company owner Ken Barry currently gigs weekly on the latest mouthpiece prototypes. His musical career spans back to 1982 when he played with the Broward Community College Jazz Band on baritone sax, and the BCC Youth Symphony as principal flutist. He won a flute scholarship to University of Miami in 1985, and a jazz sax scholarship to Florida State University in 1987 where he played lead alto sax in the Concert Jazz Ensemble. He studied wind synthesizer technology and numerous synthesis techniques. In 1990 he moved to Kansas City where he began a 12-year musical journey playing regularly at the numerous historic venues in the city. He developed a guitar pick in 1998, the Wirething, and was awarded US Patent # 5,894,097. In the early 2000’s the focus changed to mouthpieces, and with the help of Dave Liebman, Tim Price, Jimmy Greene, Michael Blake, Bob Franceschini, Pharoah Sanders, and many other great players, helped develop what is now the Saxscape line of mouthpieces.