This chart is brought to you thanks to the work of Santy Runyon! While he was a student at the University of Missouri, he worked out the information in this chart. Please check out his company at: Runyon Products and read the following articles!

For a complete explanation about this chart, please see the following two articles:

http://www.geocities.com/harrir/saxophone/tone_production.html and

http://www.saxgourmet.com/runyon/converse.pdf, which requires the Acrobat reader.

If you know the standard pitch to be used for tuning an instruments mouthpiece, please let me know and I will include it in this table. You may contact me at: mailto:wwalker@gte.net

Instrument	Mouthpiece Note (on Piano)	Mouthpiece Frequency (Hertz)
Bb Soprano Clarinet	B5	987.76660 Hz
Bb Soprano Saxophone	Db6 (See Note 1)	1108.73052 Hz
Bb Soprano Saxophone	C6 (See Note 1)	1046.50226 Hz
F Mezzo-Alto Saxophone	Unknown
Eb Alto Saxophone	A5	880.00000 Hz
C Tenor Saxophone	Ab5 (See Note 2)	830.60940 Hz
Bb Tenor Saxophone	G5	783.99087 Hz
Eb Baritone Saxophone	Eb5	622.25397 Hz

Note 1: Paul coats sent me the following email: “Mr. Runyon says Db on the soprano mouthpiece, Dr. Rousseau says C, but these are very close in embouchure pressure.” He also included the frequencies for Alto as A=880 Hz, Tenor as G = 783.9, and Bari Sax as Eb=622.4. Thank you Paul for your input.

Note 2: This is only an estimate based upon the pitch for an Eb-Alto mouthpiece and the Bb-Tenor mouthpiece. Try this to see if it works for you. If you have more accurate information, please email me so I can update this chart.