[ollinman]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-Vando...303873?hash=item1ce0e6c301:g:ga8AAOSwfVtd2s2W

 

[JimD]

They don't make 'em like that anymore. When I looked at it on eBay, not logged in, I got a bunch of random pictures below, the first one being a hand with a huge wad of banknotes which seemed completely appropriate.

 

[milandro]

I wasn't aware that there were clarinet collectors that wealthy , I am sure that some fols are already programming their CNC to produce this SQUID mouthpieces.

 

[Hipparion]

A Cthulhu mouthpiece for the clarinet... Mind-blowing ! (And sooo appropriate !?)😂

 

[Nefertiti]

What on earth?

 

[turf3]

Well, THAT'S just weird as all blankey-blank - yet it looks legit. The weird part seems to be made of the same hard rubber as the ordinary part and it's turned greenish-brown in all the right places and the right color.

Does anyone know what the heck this thing is?

 

[1saxman]

Perhaps experimental, to try to fit the natural shape of the mouth to see how the new embouchure would play. You can see it has been played for many years.

 

[MojoBari]

Looks like it is made with an epoxy putty to me. Maybe black Apoxie.

 

[milandro]

Looks like it is made with an epoxy putty to me. Maybe black Apoxie.

I think you saw it well, it is definitely made of two different plastic.

So someone took a normal mouthpiece and tried to modify this way either for same misguided idea or to compensate for some special need of some sort.

enlarged to maximim to see the connection

 

[Hipparion]

It made me think of this:

There may be a concept for future mouthpiece designs...

 

[milandro]

There may be a concept for future mouthpiece designs...

Indeed

 

[milandro]

there are strange contraptions out there....

 

[Hipparion]

Ma daiiiii !

 

[ollinman]

It actually reminded me of this guy:

https://oceana.org/sites/default/fi...sley_great_hammerhead_shark.jpg?itok=rKSJTeRc

The hammerhead mouthpiece...

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[Sakshama]

Imagine that mouthpiece with drilled side walls expanding far into the attachment. I would love to hear it.

 

[AddictedToSax]

I suspect it was designed to help with air leaking around the mouthpiece at corners of the mouth. It happens to me when I play clarinet. Not on sax because the air pressure is much less.

 

[hakukani]

Maybe made for someone who is missing their front incisors?

 

[Sacks Of Phones]

 

[milandro]

Maybe made for someone who is missing their front incisors?

It is very possible that someone was trying to fix some kind of special need. Aslo someone with problems to tighten the upper lip muscles.

 

[soybean]

I would love to try that mouthpiece.