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Re: The balance of mouthpieces

Author: donald
Date: 2018-02-24 04:56

Very interesting Brad (per usual you have thought about this, and prove to be a fountain of knowledge and skill!)
You mention the "table's plane"- I only do limited refacing now (just bits and bobs for my students) and never was that great at it, but one thing I found was that many of the new Vandoren mouthpieces I had from the late 1990s/early 2000s seemed to have symmetry and dimensions that were all hunky dory but had an odd resistance.
A few times I found mouthpieces (I was mainly looking at 5RV and 5RVL mouthpieces) that were GREATLY improved just by a "smoothing pass" or two (not enough to flatten any concavity). At the time I wondered how the table/facing were being machined- and if one of the problems with Vandoren 'pieces was that the table and facing were not linking, or aligned well.
I never looked into this, or discussed it with anyone, but my suspicion was that the table was on a different plane from the symmetry of the facing. You are of course discussing the same table plane, but in relation to the baffle- but I wonder if you have any comment on what I noticed all those years ago.
I hope all is going well over there!
dn

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