About Rascher Mouthpieces

For over 65 years, Rascher Mouthpieces has provided professional musicians, students, and saxophone enthusiasts with premium mouthpieces based on the original design by Adolphe Sax. The large tone chamber, that was once standard for all saxophone manufacturers, allows for a beautifully even distribution of overtones within the sound giving it superior blending qualities and tremendous breadth of tone. The carefully calculated facing produces plenty of power to project over a large ensemble.

Sometime after the Buescher Manufacturing Company was taken over by Selmer in the mid-1960s, it was no longer possible to purchase newly-made large chamber mouthpieces. In an effort to restore the original sound of the saxophone, Sigurd Raschèr established the Rascher Mouthpiece Company and worked closely with mouthpiece makers JJ Babbitt in Elkhart, Indiana to continue to make these special mouthpieces available. We are proud to continue this important musical legacy.

Rascher Mouthpieces are available for soprano, alto, tenor, and baritone saxophones. Each voice has its own distinctive facing designed for optimum playability.

New Sigurd Rascher saxophone mouthpiece. TO RESTORE THE PURITY, beauty, and expressiveness of saxophone tone, considered by many to have been lost in the "edgy" tone produced by the modern straight-chamber mouthpiece, Sigurd Rascher has worked with B

(An early advertisement for Rascher Mouthpieces from Downbeat Magazine, Oct. 31, 1957)