Vintage Meliphone Special Tenor Saxophone Mouthpiece "B5*"
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Not sure of the year of this Meliphone Special Steel Ebonite tenor piece, but it came in with a mid-'60s Conn 10M whose elderly owner recently passed away. I'm posing it's an earlier year because a 90-year-old player here told me his parents bought him a used one of these HR mouthpieces when he was in elementary school. They were produced from 1923 to 1967 by The Woodwind Co., New York.
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Stamped on it and all clearly visible are Steel Ebonite, Meliphone Special within an oval, its patent number 1452953, and B5* on its table. It was made with a metal banded shank which pretty much guaranteed it would never split, although the material of this piece is bullet-proof without that. Here's one which was sold recently at $300.
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Price includes a nice but expectedly tarnished ligature and cap. The lig is a single screw type very similar to an Otto Link, except it actually holds the reed tight against the table.
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