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What is really telling is that you should have similar mouthpiece placement for low notes and high notes.

That usually will be a decent amount of mouthpiece in your mouth.

I wouldn't adjust your mouthpice placement between notes, but try to find the mouthpiece placement that gets the most notes in tune. Take this time to really learn your horns tendensies. If a note tends to allways play sharp, remember. Another thing to pay attention to is while your doing this exersice learn about your horn. The reason your starting at the top and going down is most player tend to go sharp as they get higher, starting at the top should reduce this habit. Piano has the ability of already having a nice round tone. Each note should be played long enough that you feel it is very much in tune, based on the Tuner or piano. Start on High B and work your way down to Low E. The idea is to play loud enough to hear yourself very well. Now here is where the piano or tuner is so very important. (of course problems here can impact your ability to play fast). They also experience the least ammount of mechanical problems that would impact your tone. Thouse are the notes that are the easiest to keep a large sound behind.

Well the exersise is for Breath control/pitch control and to hear yourself (color pitch tone)I personally think the meat of the sax is from high B above the staff to low E, last line of staff. Waste of time to just blow them with no tuner near by. When doing thouse Long tones don't forget the tuner!! or piano. Not a week girly tone, but a big robust manly tone. Get where noone can hear you and get ready to blow. If you are breaking reeds, take better care of them, reed case, mouthpiece cap.And for a strong tone on Tenor, take the long tones advise. There not great for anything, I would use a worn reed for practicing. If you care about your tone stop using thouse nasty synthtic reeds. The sugestions already given are all good. To get the velvet tone, I really doubt you will get that from a metal mouthpiece? Try a big chambered Hard Rubber. If you can aford that horn you really should have a better mouthpiece. critisism! Critisim is as usefull as listen to a donkey yell at me. You really can't ask them to change, their biggest market is school age kids and thier parents.Jim was being a little vauge in his comments but he was tring to tell you that if you got a older horn, a horn designed more with your sound requirments in mind that it would be easier to get that type of sound out of it.But I allways like to give adivce vs. Remember modern horns usuallly play alot of clasical and they reflect that with their design. It's all about taste, in the end it's just a big brass tube with pretty buttons.One possible difference is the bell diameter, older american horns had a bigger bell then a YTS(Yamaha Tenor Sax) The 62 is gonna pack more punch, and also be a brighter horn.