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Author: Dan Shusta
Date: 2012-09-12 21:55
I did a careful reading about the new Rico Reserve clarinet mouthpiece on ricorreeds.com. Yes, it said "Made in America", however, when they wrote about their rubber, all they said was that they made an exhaustive search which took them around the world to find the rubber with the qualities that they were looking for.
With a retail price of under $100, I suspect their rubber comes from overseas.
Does anyone have any substantiated proof as to the source country of their rubber?
Also, if a manufacturer uses almost 100% of the material in their product and merely assembles or machines their product here in America, can they truthfully use the term "Made In America"?
Just curious...
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Author: sfalexi
Date: 2012-09-13 00:49
You think every aspect of a Harley is american made? Every piece of steel, every rivet, every bolt? Hell, they use metric size fasteners...that's not the american standard of measuring.....
I would wager to say that MANY "made in america" items should really be coined "assembled in america" or "finished in america".
For that matter, the Honda Goldwing (a japanese bike) WAS made in america. How's that for backwards (buying a japanese product actually assembled and made in america?)
I'm sure there's some legal language somewhere dictating how much percentage of the manufacturing process has to be in America in order to be able to be stamped like that, but I doubt it's "100%"
Alexi
US Army Japan Band
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Author: Buster
Date: 2012-09-13 02:08
No need to get overly patriotic over a silly mouthpiece.
Why, we can simply rely on pragmatism in certain cases!
Last time that I checked there weren't too many rubber-tree plantations in the good ol' U.S. of A.
Of course, the meats your vintage Indian rolls on are now up for debate.
-Jason
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Author: The Doctor ★2017
Date: 2012-09-13 02:13
(Disclaimer - the name mark and trademark Chedeville is regisered to GH,llc - USA)
Made in America is more a misnomer than it used to be. TMK there are no commercial manufacturers of Chedeville style rubber in the US. The rubber used in the three Chedeville reproductions is custom made, much more expensive, and not similar - in my testing, to the rubber used in the Rico Reserve mouthpieces. Their CNC machining I believe is done in the USA.
L. Omar Henderson
www.doctorsprod.com
www.chedevillemp.com
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Author: Ed
Date: 2012-09-13 16:09
I remember reading a car comparison in one of the big magazines a few years back. It reviewed similar sized models in Toyota, Honda, Hyundai and Ford. The first three were made in plants in the US, while the "US" car was made in Mexico.
I am sure that all of them had parts made all over the globe.
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Author: JHowell
Date: 2012-09-14 03:17
The two major manufacturers of rod rubber, SEM and New York-Hamburg, are in Germany. I would be neither surprised nor disappointed if their rod stock came from either manufacturer. There are US companies capable of producing rod rubber to specific formulations. Whether or not they are capable of producing the quantities required at Rico's price point is another matter.
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