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Re: 440Hz mouthpiece on 442Hz tuning

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2020-07-12 18:30

Patrick wrote:

> The biggest confusion I found with mouthpieces is the
> advertisement of saying that a mouthpiece is tuned at 440 or
> 442.

Maybe someone has a clearer memory of such advertising before the introduction of Vandoren's Series 13. As a kid and even later as an older student even through my graduate studies with Gigliotti ('72 to '74), I don't remember seeing indications that mouthpieces were made for different pitch levels. Although Gigliotti started marketing 442 versions of his mouthpieces, I'm not sure that was the case until later. I was never aware of a distinction between mouthpieces made for 440 and 442. Maybe I was just oblivious.

I'm sure, like the sax mouthpieces I described earlier, that there *were* tuning differences among the mouthpieces that were available at the time. But I don't remember that the differences were advertised as selling features.

Does anyone remember differently?

Karl

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