Klarinet Archive - Posting 000863.txt from 1999/02

From: Keith <100012.1302@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] klarinet Digest 22 Feb 1999 18:31:46 -0000 Issue 1089
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 08:07:10 -0500

Message text written by INTERNET:klarinet@-----.org
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--I do not understand, however, why the Vandorens or Woodwinds of the wor=
ld
don't throw a suitcase of money at one or more of these gentlemen and
replicate some of the custom mouthpieces. It *should* be possible to hav=
e
these things machined with an extremely close manufacturing tolerance, so=

you wouldn't have to be a virtuoso craftsman to make them. With a close =
to
minimum-wage machine operator, enough of these could be sent to keep the
price down to the store-bought mouthpiece level. Then students could
afford
them, too, no?
<

Yes - since one can mould a lens in a disposable camera, which has
tolerances FAR smaller than any hand craftsman can achieve, one can mould=
a
mouthpiece that is easily accurate enough. The investment in manufacturin=
g
machinery is $millions, and for small runs this is the problem, not the
royalties to the designers or the salaries of the workers. For these
machines, 100,000 is a small run!

Keith Bowen

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