Klarinet Archive - Posting 000872.txt from 1999/02

From: "Kevin Fay (LCA)" <kevinfay@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] klarinet Digest 22 Feb 1999 18:31:46 -0000 Issue 1089
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 12:12:00 -0500

I wrote: <<<I do not understand, however, why the Vandorens or Woodwinds of
the world 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
have these things machined with an extremely close manufacturing tolerance,
so you wouldn't have to be a virtuoso craftsman to make them.>>>

Keith responded:

<<<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 manufacturing
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!>>>

Now I understand.

kjf

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