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Eb mouthpiece -- new or reface?

Author: lhoffman
Date: 2010-10-11 15:31

I'm a doubler and dabbler in horn repair, with no experience on Eb prior to this week. I picked one up at a garage sale that I've managed to get playing nicely, so now I need to give some attention to the mouthpiece. It came with an old rubber Geo M. Bundy mouthpiece. Even though the rails are rounded, I can play it enough to see it has potential. I know that for sax mouthpieces at least, these old Bundy's make good blanks for a reface. I'm looking for some advice as to whether I should go for the reface with this one, or to start fresh with something else, and what that something else might be.
On a related note, has anybody played with refacing Eb mouthpieces with wider facings, to better match a Bb reed? I know it's fairly common to use a Bb reed on the effer, but a matched mouthpiece makes sense to me.

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