Mouthpieces Selmer Scroll shank Alto B* Saxophone mouthpiece with extra??

[ProfJames]

This mouthpiece is on eBay. What is the attachment for?

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[rhysonsax]

A microphone transducer that screws in. Something like this Shure transducer: http://shure.custhelp.com/app/answe...-ca20-transducer-pick-up-for-wind-instruments

Rhys

 

[ProfJames]

Thanks Rhys, would that mean that a transducer links to a synthesiser? The sound can then be manipulated electronically?

 

[rhysonsax]

This particular Shure transducer was 60s-70s technology. As it says on that webpage:

"The phone plug connected to the Condor RSM Wind Instrument Synthesizer, made by Innovex. The Condor was based on the electronics of the Hammond orgran and could produce a variety of sounds and effects using the wind instrument as the trigger source. Examples of settings on the Condor: Bass Sax, Fuzz, Cello, Oboe, Tremolo, Vibrato, Bassoon, etc. If the player wanted to use the instrument acoustically, the CA20B would be unthreaded from the adapter and replaced by a brass cap that sealed the side hole in the mouthpiece."

I have got a tenor mouthpiece that has one of these fitted, but it just has the blanking plug, so I haven't been able to use it electronically.

I think that there were/are various other transducers with a similar idea, either fitted to mouthpiece or neck or even the reed.

Rhys

PS Some more information on this thread: http://cafesaxophone.com/showthread.php?7732-WTB-Under-reed-pick-up