Selmers with(out) potential! 

Finally! Time has come! Welcome back! Waiting for RDG noir Bonade and Vocalise mouthpieces reviews!

My teacher's favorite mouthpieces. The oval table stamps were his favorites, especially when reworked by Matson.

Good to see you back. I collected and played and worked on a number of those myself and I couldn´t agree more to your assessment of the "s...r" and later pieces and their decline. I found the pre-table (laurel logo close to the barrel) even better than the table in terms of material. Yet the early pre laurel logo (in a dotted whitish oval) have incomparable, marvellous rubber. The bore is big, sure (fits my horn), everything else is just amazing. Even the one soprano sax mp I have is just about the best I ever played. Bechet played one of those and the great Olivier Franc has forever been chasing the resonance it created (the original broke at one point). Many older generation Jazz players I knew favoured the oval (which certainly can be excellent), but I concluded that was because they would buy them new in their youth and sort of came too late for the earlier models or maybe because they used newer horns without Moennig-barrels and the intonation would be a problem.

my 1st serious clarinet mouthpiece was a Selmer HS** ! From there I went to a Bay O-L. I started doing a lot of Big Band work so went to a Gale. Lately I've been playing Vandorens. B 45 or 5 RV lyre. I still have the HS**. I played a Sumner for awhile too and very briefly an O' Brian crystal piece. That was a long time ago !

I have a Selmer hs ** that did not play at all...I sent it to Brad Behn and that piece now is totally great....the ONLY thing I don't like about it is that it is a slightly different shape than my Chedevilles and my jaw has to drop just a bit more to play it and I don't like having a more open mouth when I play...Marcellus always said...that a more open throat kills a good tone...and having your mouth more open tends to open the throat...p.s..Pasquale Cardillo played selmer pieces and I love his tone

The Bundy 3 are Cheds that were made at the same time that Kaspar was getting cheds. I have one, done by Tim Wright, that is fantastic! One of the Selmers you have is from the 70s. The one over on the right that had the bigger Made in France. My teacher in grad school, Ron deKant, liked those, and were worked on by Matson. Matson, instead of payment, would ask for those Selmer blanks, so I was always buying them online for him when I was in undergrad.

i have one with the selmer logo down low near the tenon cork, no other markings, any info on that would be appreciated, thanks!

Can you make fast double tonguing?

I bet the older selmers used the same type rubber as the old old chedevilles

All these play at 440hz?