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 Re: crystal mouthpiece and classical playing
Author: Matt74 
Date:   2021-07-02 20:52

I wasn’t going to say anything, but… The color of glass has nothing to do with its quality. It’s simply the mineral composition.

The perception may be a hold over from the 1800s when colorless glass was less common. Colorless glass was held to be of higher quality because it was clear, especially lead glass, and that’s often what you wanted - to see through it. Lead glass was more expensive. If you look at old bottles a lot of them are “slightly colored”, and have bubbles. They’re cheap, but serviceable. Fancy cut crystal is often lead glass.

The clarity is held to be a sign of quality, especially the absence of tiny bubbles. Modern “ultra clear” glass like “Starphire Glass” is expensive. They use it for fish tanks where the color or clarity of standard glass begins to show because of the thickness. Modern window glass is often green if you look at it from the edge. The consistency of color would be an indicator of quality because it would indicate consistent composition and manufacture.

IDK if any particular glass kinds of glass are better for mouthpieces. IDK if O’Brien used inferior glass. They do look like inferior glass, but they’ve been around for a while. Pomarico does sell different colored mouthpieces, and they look very pretty on the website.

- Matthew Simington


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