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Selmer Clarinet mouthpiece- Vintage?

Author: donald nicholls
Date: 2001-11-16 23:32

kia ora
just this morning i unearthed an old Selmer Clarinet mouthpiece from the junk box at a music store. It needs re-corking, and i haven't measured the facing to see how warped etc it is, but it's in ok shape except for ligature scratches and a scratch on the baffle that is probably from a pull through (some of the older pull throughs had a metal sleeve where the string was attached to the material and this could sometimes scratch the bore, i can't think of any other way that the baffle would get a big groove in it?).
The Selmer logo is on the top of the mouthpiece, and the table is stamped with the letter "D" inside an oval.There are no other markings except for the "made in france" on the front just above the shoulder. Does anyone have any idea how old this mouthpiece might be?
donald

ps- also in the same box was an old Buffet Tenor Sax mouthpiece (rubber), and both (old) Selmer and Hite E flat clarinet mouthpieces..... plus a pair of Wurlitzer mouthpieces for reform Boehm Clarinets (unfortunately they don't play well in tune on my Buffet, but sound a bit like Pyne mouthpieces). I'm always on the lookout for a Cundy-Bettony or Evette-Schaeffer made from Chedeville blank, but down here in NZ there just don't seem to be any.

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