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Today I had a play around with my Selmer Super series tenor and a Series III neck.
The tenon sizes are different but I made them fit with a little Teflon tape.
Surprisingly the results were quite good.
The Series III neck did not present any intonation issues on the old tenor and the sound was pretty good.
Octave key didn’t match with the horn so getting a full sense of how good the match would be wasn’t possible.
I don’t need a neck as I have the original and have no issues with it.
But it was interesting all the same.
Just curious as to whether others have had good results pairing a modern neck with an early (pre MKVI) horn.
The tenon sizes are different but I made them fit with a little Teflon tape.
Surprisingly the results were quite good.
The Series III neck did not present any intonation issues on the old tenor and the sound was pretty good.
Octave key didn’t match with the horn so getting a full sense of how good the match would be wasn’t possible.
I don’t need a neck as I have the original and have no issues with it.
But it was interesting all the same.
Just curious as to whether others have had good results pairing a modern neck with an early (pre MKVI) horn.