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Re: Regarding the Selmer Concept Mouthpiece...

Author: Bob Bernardo
Date: 2018-06-04 08:35

The Focus and the Concept rubber is pretty soft. This is both good and bad. Since August when I first commented on the Concept for $100 it still remains a very good mouthpiece. Several have passed by me for refacing and some magic touches to get rid of the resistance. The bore is inconsistent. Some are very nice like the old Chedeville bores and others just are way off. So I blame this on the tooling Selmer is using. The reamers are perhaps getting too hot or the rubber is a problem. I prefer very hard rubber not this softer rubber they are using.

Wish someone there would call me. Guess they are too proud to ask for advice. This $100 average mouthpiece could be a treasure with the right techniques and concepts put into place. As it stands now it still beats anything Vandoren puts out, because it plays pretty much in tune, if the bore is set correctly.

I strongly feel the Concept is a much better mouthpiece compared to their Focus. To redo the focus several hours would be needed to make this mouthpiece play well. But the Concept given about 30 minutes to an hour of reboring and other adjustments, could sound pretty amazing. Equal to any $500 to $1000 mouthpiece.

Designer of - Vintage 1940 Cicero Mouthpieces and the La Vecchia mouthpieces

Yamaha Artist 2015

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