Selmer (Paris) S80 for Tenor
I went to town on this mouthpiece and gave it a good work-over in a variety of set-ups. First off was the Rovner dark ligature and a Daniel's reed no.3. Blows very freely, intonation very good, nice projection and clear tone. Change the reed to a Vandoren no.3 and the tone is more mature, softer, more rounded with better response. Change to a normal ligature and the control is gone, struggled a bit in the extremes of the sax. Altissimo was almost impossible, but I would need to play a bigger size, an F or G, for me to get those notes clearly. With a Rico Jazz Select no.3 soft ( rico 3 1/2) more edge to the sound but still hard work in the high register. With the Rovner and a Rico Royal no.3 a pleasing reedy sound was produced, very full sound at the bottom end but the response not as good as with the Vandoren reeds. The BG Super Revelation worked much the same as the Rovner but just helped to project the sound further. Nice mouthpiece which needs a hard reed and a good ligature (saxes used Selmer Series II and Yanagisawa T991).

Our Price (excluding vat): £102.13 (£120.00 Including VAT at 17.5%)


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