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Re: Powertone mouthpiece

Author: Bob Bernardo
Date: 2019-11-20 06:30

Nice find Dan! To my knowledge Arnold never set foot in England!

The Metalite mouthpieces he designed at Rico actually played really well for the saxophones; if you get them refaced. The facing machine at Rico was terrible and the mouthpiece was FORCED into this bore device and then locked. But the force was so bad the mouthpiece table bubbled in the center and pretty much wrecked any form of putting on a facing. After Arnold died and I left Rico due to using pesticides on the reeds, Rico did hire me to fix these problems. But shortly after this Rico was sold to B&H. The mouthpiece portion was then decided to put on hold and never brought back into production. Lost millions and millions of this project. If they didn't give up I think the issues could have been fixed.

I haven't heard of the Powertone mpc either and I worked with him for 15 years. He never mentioned this model.

Designer of - Vintage 1940 Cicero Mouthpieces and the La Vecchia mouthpieces

Yamaha Artist 2015

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