Selmer Pennsylvania Special

Thanks for the help 🙂

I found it quite hard to get used to playing it as it would squeek but I don't know if that is a problem with my embrasure or the mouthpiece, the ebay listing was bad with a blurry photo of the whole mouthpiece in it's cap but it did say it had been resurfaced once so not sure if that affects it but I put in an offer with 3 days left on the auction not expecting anythinf for £65 with the starting bid being around £80 and he accepted
If it's been refaced that puts a whole different slant on it, check who did the the reface, it still might be a good piece if it was done correctly.
 
Ok I'm waiting for a reply from the seller there is also some faint writing on the face, it is very hard to read is it worth trying to de-cypher or will it not give me any more information?
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Ok I'm waiting for a reply from the seller there is also some faint writing on the face, it is very hard to read is it worth trying to de-cypher or will it not give me any more information?
I think the writing on the table got imprinted from a reed that was left on the mouthpiece.
Hard to read the font from the photo. Can't it be (inverted) "Vandoren"?
 
Well done @BalancedReaction It does indeed read Vandoren. Image below was the one from @JakeSax , saved and flipped in a photo editor. So it doesn't give any more information. However, the tables, tip and rails look OK. This doesn't guarantee it'll play well, but if they looked dodgy it would give a likelihood that it won't.

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Well done @BalancedReaction It does indeed read Vandoren. Image below was the one from @JakeSax , saved and flipped in a photo editor. So it doesn't give any more information. However, the tables, tip and rails look OK. This doesn't guarantee it'll play well, but if they looked dodgy it would give a likelihood that it won't.
Thanks that's interesting I didn't know that could happen!
The seller said that the resurface was mostly cosmetic but didn't have much information as it was gifted to them so didn't know who when or where it was resurfaced only that it had been once
 

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