Klarinet Archive - Posting 000649.txt from 2000/08

From: "Lacy, Edwin" <el2@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: [kl] Mouthpiece boring?
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 17:22:45 -0400

<<<Seems like maybe the intent in the case of the C* was to emphasize the
retained facing measurements on a basically new blank. I take it (I'm sorry,
as I said before, I really wasn't paying close attention) the old style C*
is no longer available new?>>>

No, nothing even remotely like it is available any more. The story which
circulated in the early 1960's was that Selmer got complaints that the C*
mouthpiece played well and sounded good, but that it tended to be sharp.
So, they responded by making the back part of the mouthpiece (the "barrel")
longer. Both the interior and the facing were supposed to remain the same.
However, you could look into the back of the mouthpiece and easily see that
the shape of the bore had been changed. When they later came out with the
S-80 saxophone, the exterior of the mouthpiece was considerably altered, and
the bore has become square, or at least rectangular.

I was lucky to have been able to obtain about 6 of the old model, made in
the 50's. I have now sold all but two of them, and I'm protecting these as
though they were made of gold.

Ed Lacy
EL2@-----.edu

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