Model:  James Houlik

Sax:  tenor

Material:  hard rubber

Chamber: medium

Baffle: low

Description: 

James Houlik (b. 1942), a student of Sigurd Rascher and professor for saxophone and Chair of Woodwinds at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is an acclaimed classical saxophone performer. His quest for the perfect mouthpiece have led him to design an own line of alto and tenor hard rubber mouthpieces. James Houlik  mouthpieces are copies of the saxophone mouthpiece James Houlik played, made by himself.

Pictured here are a modern production James Houlik hard rubber mouthpiece (black), along with an earlier Houlik-Bilger mouthpiece (brown/black). Houlik mouthpieces achieve the difficult combination of free blowing and dark sounding and are excellent mouthpieces for classical music. His mouthpieces are marked either ‘O’ for original facing or ‘N’ (likely for ‘new’).

James Houlik