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The most underrated mouthpieces/blanks

Author: sonicbang
Date: 2022-10-06 11:03

There are (mostly vintage) mouthpieces I find to be very underrated. True, very often these don't play up to their potential without a refacing, but some of these turn out to be not just decent, but excellent mouthpieces.

You can buy most of these around or under 50$ and they can outperform some higher-priced mpcs.

Here is my list of the (IMO) most underrated ones:

*Noblet 2V & Egytpian scroll pattern
*Vito (hard rubber with 'vito' written multiple times as a ligature line)
*Selmer HS* (regular, not oval logo, that one is widely considered to be a great blank)
*G.Leblanc 4 & 2 (is ther a 3 at all?)
*Buffet C (hard rubber, not C crown, logo in the middle, moderately wide throat)
*Mitchell Lurie ML3

Please add your most underrated mouthpiece findings, regardless if you had to have it refaced of they played fine in their original form!

Hope this will be an interesting thread