New design of Lawton mouthpieces made of brass alloy, plated with nickel, and then gold-plated with a heavy deposit.
Designed to give a bright tone, without impairing control or intonation.
Three standard lays for baritone, four lays for tenor; special lays can be made to order.
Early Lawton Tenor .095
Introduced in October 1965 (approx.), starting with the baritone with the tenor following in April 1966 and alto in July 1967.
The earliest Lawton mouthpieces updated the external shape from the Lawton-Barton pieces, with the characteristics that were used by Lawton from then on:
Rectangular bite plate inlay with rounded corners
Reed cover closed-ended
Ligature thumb screw stamped with "LAWTON MOUTHPIECES ENGLAND"
"LAWTON" stamped on left side of the mouthpiece
Mouthpieces marked on the end of the table with the tip opening in thousandths of an inch (not in a circle, includes the decimal point). NB this alto example has both the tip opening measurement marked on the table and a tip opening code number on the side, as was used for all later models.
Internal design is different to the previous Lawton-Barton: slight baffle sloping down into a medium-large chamber with slightly rounded-out sidewalls. Transition into the chamber is sometimes a very smoothed-off bullet shape.
Early Lawton Alto 7. .080
