Geoff Lawton designed and made mouthpieces from the early 1960s, initially under the Lawton-Barton brand. Following the death of Dennis Barton the brand changed to Lawton in 1965 and the design was updated, producing what we have called the "Early Lawton".

Geoff spent a lot of time trying new ideas for mouthpieces, using different materials, experimenting with different shapes of chamber and throat, various baffle designs and a range of facing curves and tip sizes. Many of these experimental prototypes were never sold publicly, but sub-pages of this section of the website describe and show the following commercially available models and variants: