You can see that I’m using the natural wall of the bamboo to form the end of the mouthpiece, and I’m not using anything else. This design results in a rich and stable sound, but with a slightly less saxophone-like tone. How could this be improved?
The solution is simple, I insert a little piece of wood into the mouthpiece to form a baffle, resembling a traditional saxophone mouthpiece.
In the first step, I placed the little piece of wood a little lower than the edge of the mouthpiece. You can see the result in instrument #21-02, which has a mouthpiece that looks like this: