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Author: wanabe
Date: 2014-03-24 07:37
I was rummaging through my junk box looking for something today when I realized that I had about 20 or so mouthpieces that I had no idea what they were. The brand and/or model markings on them were completely worn off. These are my "G.O.K." (God only knows) mouthpieces. How many do you have and what do you do with them?
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Author: Tony F
Date: 2014-03-24 12:15
I've got about 30 or so apart from the ones actually fitted to instruments. Some are known pieces that I have accumulated in the never-ending search, but about 20 are unknowns. A few weeks back I spent a wet afternoon play-testing them and found that some were surprisingly good. Those I'll put onto instruments for sale. The 12 or so remaining will become my guinea-pigs, on which I'll try out new (to me) techniques and tools. I've had some surprising finds among the oddments I've gathered. I bought a box of 5 unknowns from a local music shop that changed owners a few years back and found that for my $20 I had 2 B45's, a glass Vandoren A2 and a couple of Bundy's.
Tony F.
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2014-03-24 16:17
I don't own any but was just thinking that Yamaha should take their name off of theirs before someone realizes they make them!
............Paul Aviles
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Author: fskelley
Date: 2014-03-24 18:30
Paul Aviles wrote:
> I don't own any but was just thinking that Yamaha should take
> their name off of theirs before someone realizes they make
> them!
>
> ............Paul Aviles
LOL. Actually, are there any Yamaha's that deserve consideration by serious players?
Is anybody today making a decent mouthpiece that comes unmarked? Or so lightly marked it will soon be unmarked? Like maybe only a painted logo or stick on label. How would you identify it later?
Have any of you high end (or other) folks ever said, "This has to be a B45!" or something to that effect? Which hearkens back to my previous questions about how to verify "factory original" specs on a mp of unknown pedigree.
Stan in Orlando
EWI 4000S with modifications
Post Edited (2014-03-24 14:32)
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Author: MSK
Date: 2014-03-27 06:14
I have two Vandoren MPs where the label is nearly worn off. One is a 2RV from my childhood and the other a more recent 5rv lyre. I know exactly what they are, so that doesn't really count as "GOK". Of course the junk stock MPs that came with my various clarinets are clearly labelled - of course they are never used so they look brand new.
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Author: qualitycontrol
Date: 2014-03-27 09:34
The Vandoren labelling/printing almost always seems to come off, but isn't the model always stamped into the blank near the tenon?
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