Selmer "Air Flow" Pre-Soloist Round Chamber chedeville handmade 3 digit serial pieces

handmade 3 digit serial pieces in original condition are getting nearly impossible to find

Early manufacturers would often put something known as a 'French curve' on their mouthpieces which included a concavity in the table

This piece has an obvious amount of wear from long term use

Kirk used this for a number of years in the early 1980's and shows the appropriate wear

More contemporary examples include Javon Jackson

Selmer "Air Flow" Pre-Soloist Round Chamber chedeville handmade 3 digit serial piecesHere is an original Selmer "Air Flow" C* tenor mouthpiece. This mouthpiece measures . 072" on my gauge. This piece is from the 1950's and was the precursor to the now legendary "Soloist" design. I find this to be a huge leap in design from the cavernous chambers of previous models that were stamped "air flow". This generation would have been included with Super Action saxophones or very early Mark VI instruments. What is remarkable is the tight, round