The Sugal KW III + s Laser Enhanced

Black Hematite Tenor Saxophone Mouthpiece

SKU 1200GL

 (video demo by Paul Perez)

The Sugal Black Hematite KW III + s is designed by master artisan and mouthpiece model maker Gary Sugal for saxophonists who play contemporary jazz, Rock “n” Roll, Fusion, as well as  players aspiring to achieve the great sound of Kirk Whalum.

The qualities of the KW III + s include a fat, thick, wet, soulful sound, outstanding harmonics, controlled power with lots of edge, focus projection, and ease of play. The spontaneous articulation without lag and an exceptional evenness flow into every register of the horn are some of the amazing qualities you will immediately notice upon playing.

 Some of the attributes of the KW III + s include parallel slightly thicker rails, refined mini–tracks, and a machined raised roll-over snow-hill styled baffle. Sugal’s famous compound radius inside the baffle along with the exclusive bullet chamber enables air to flow evenly into a medium sized chamber. All of these attributes allow for outstanding resonance, ease of play, and complete control of every note in all registers of the horn.

The KW III + s mouthpiece also includes laser trimmed side tip rails and a laser treated body, making this model ideally suited for the professional and semi-professional musician seeking ease of play with lots of edge, a fat, rich, free blowing, powerful, and centered sound. Players can now pop altissimo notes as easy as playing a middle C.

The KW III + s is plated with Sugal’s proprietary hygienically-safe 18Kt Heavy Gold Plate  finish. Manufactured in Rhode Island on a in house hi-tech four axis CNC (Computer Numerical Control) machining center. It is Sugal’s most recent upgrade from the original pure copper gold plated KW II version that was made especially for Kirk Whalum in 1992.

The new KW III + s as an upgrade on the original KW II, is regarded as a pro’s pro choice mouthpiece, and includes all of the older attributes with added laser treatment for a more dynamic, focused powerful sound with projection, edge, and ease of play.

The mouthpiece is meticulously hand finished and play tested for superior quality by Gary Suhe fFeatures:

As a thirty plus years innovator in the mouthpiece industry master saxophone mouthpiece model maker Gary Sugal has incorporated his years of experience into this model

The KW III +s is designed for  todays’ all around  jazz musician,  gospel performing artist, , Rock “n” Roll musician, as well as the contemporary jazz stylist  seeking to “cut through” when competing with electronics instruments.

The KW III +s is designed to be comfortable in the mouth and aerodynamically embrace the contour of the embouchure. 

Produced from virgin grain pure copper bar stock the copper body material helps the player to attain a  genuine warm tenor sound while at the same time be bright with controllable, allowing for projection, edge, and ease of play found in no other mouthpiece.

The refined parallel “min-tracks” allows the pure copper metal body “to breathe” resonate warm harmonics without ever sounding “gritty” “nasal” or “kazooish”.

Side and tip rails as well as the body are evenly laser treated. 

Tip rails and body are meticulously hand finished by Gary Sugal.

Every mouthpiece prior to delivery is thoroughly play tested by Gary Sugal and includes Sugal’s famous built on sliding ligature newly designed slide-on cap

Easily controllable in every register of the horn.

Altissimo register is effortless.

Intonation and Harmonics is “spot on”

Articulation it is easy to control and there is no lag.

Response throughout the full range of the horn from low Bb to as high as you can go into the altissimo-it  is all even.

Due to the design of the built on ligature and uniquely -styled cap the mouthpiece is genuinely “reed friendly” to all popular brands of reeds. 

Most customize sizes 7 - 10* available :$1295.00