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I have this Selmer metal mouthpiece that came with a 1925 soprano saxophone.
The silver plating is worn, the bite plate missing, but other than that it is in great shape. It reads "H Selmer" on the top, on the table it says "Precisiongarantie -- table HS**". It apparently used to have a slide-on ligature as there is a rail above the table. The chamber is large and as you can see from the pictures, it has a Clarinet-type window. The table is much longer than soprano reeds and the shank is very long, too. According to Theo Wanne's web site, the first Selmer metal mouthpieces were made in the 1940s, but there is reason to believe that this is actually a much earlier metal Selmer mpc, probably from the 1920s -- something I have never heard of.
Have you ever seen such a Selmer metal mouthpiece?
Thanks!
The silver plating is worn, the bite plate missing, but other than that it is in great shape. It reads "H Selmer" on the top, on the table it says "Precisiongarantie -- table HS**". It apparently used to have a slide-on ligature as there is a rail above the table. The chamber is large and as you can see from the pictures, it has a Clarinet-type window. The table is much longer than soprano reeds and the shank is very long, too. According to Theo Wanne's web site, the first Selmer metal mouthpieces were made in the 1940s, but there is reason to believe that this is actually a much earlier metal Selmer mpc, probably from the 1920s -- something I have never heard of.
Have you ever seen such a Selmer metal mouthpiece?
Thanks!



