Author: donald
Date: 2021-11-19 01:32
I have a few of these around, and 2 of the "Evette Schaeffer" ones.... some of these MAY be great, my old teacher had an E+S refaced that was amazing...
Also I remember playing in the Traverse Symphony many many years back, and the E flat clarinet I borrowed had a refaced Buffet mouthpiece- it was amazing, a really good mouthpiece.
However, my experience with these has mostly been disappointment, and as a mouthpiece re-facer I've encountered many of them with flaws that are very hard to rectify.
- tip rails with widely varying thickness (sometimes easy to fix, often way too much work).
- the side rails of different lengths, so the tip profile is offset (essentially on a different axis than the rest of the mouthpiece geometry)
- baffle crazily asymetrical.
I certainly wouldn't pay big money on Ebay for one of these, but if I find one in a drawer I always take the time to look it over, and maybe play test.
A few years back I bought a couple of E+S from a well known Chicago player that turned out to be garbage. I'll reface them eventually, but there are so many problems with the geometry that they'll take a LOT of work.
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