Lawton's Own Description of the Model R

1984 article by Leslie Evans in Crescendo: Geoff Lawton has also introduced one new model mouthpiece, which he is calling his ‘R model’, and this will be in metal only. He has made a scoop immediately behind the rim-tip, in the baffle area, which he claims produces a different type of tone altogether. In discussing this with him, Geoff said: “It reminds me of the ‘light’ type of tone Paul Desmond used to get”, and I said: “I always described Desmond’s tone as having a sort of ethereal quality” “That’s the word. Ethereal will do very nicely”. So there we go. Hands up everyone who wants to try for an ethereal sound !