Rare! Goldbeck Chicago 'Superb' #3 Metal Mouthpiece for C Soprano Sax

This is a piece for a collector, the Goldbeck Chicago 'Superb' #3 metal mouthpiece for soprano saxophone pitched in C. This piece was made in the 1920s for a brief time, it's considered one of the oldest metal mouthpieces, if not the oldest. These play dark by design, the baffle is flat and deep with rounded side-walls that spill out into the true-large chamber. This is a very common design of mouthpieces during this era.

 

Physically this mouthpiece is in great condition, besides a few cosmetic marks on the side-rails, and rail-tip, some scratches on the sides of the table. The piece still plays with these blemishes. The sides of the mouthpiece are fluted but only externally. You can see a faint line that bisects the entire mouthpiece, these were crafted in two halves and then finished.

 

This mouthpiece measures 0.044-inches/1.11mm, so it cannot project very loudly, but its tone is dark and lush. This piece plays in tune on a C Soprano, the shank is too tight to fit a soprano. Once on a C soprano it plays in tune. In a collectors context, this mouthpiece line only had a limited run, so an actual C Soprano piece would be a whole league more rare than an alto or tenor piece.

 

We will ship this mouthpiece with no ligature or mouthpiece cap. But a Rovner Dark 1M soprano ligature will fit it well.