Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2014-03-17 03:08
fskelley wrote:
> Of course what I am suggesting would immediately destroy the
> resale value of said mouthpiece,
Well, no, although it might limit the market for resale to players who know something about the mouthpieces and the blanks they were made from. Often, as already noted, a skilled refacer can improve a great deal on what came off of the manufacturer's assembly line. Sometimes a person who buys old mouthpieces expects to put a favorite facing on anything he buys and isn't concerned about what the measurements are when he buys it.
If you buy used mouthpieces, you may not be getting a Vandoren 5RV, but you are getting a 5RV blank, which can be expected to have a set of timbral, tuning and internal resistance characteristics that you may hope to optimize by changing (or having someone else do it) the actual facing measurements if they aren't satisfactory. If you buy "premium" old mouthpieces (particularly those with the two magic names Chedeville or Kaspar on them or ones that were perhaps made from their blanks) you're gambling that you've stumbled on a treasure. Most of the time, as in any other gamble, you loose. Sometimes not.
Players alter mouthpieces not to defraud any possible future user but to try to improve them over what the manufacturer originally put out.
Karl
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