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Re: New mouthpiece suggestions

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2014-11-23 09:08

I am in the minority amongst these postings but for at least the last 10 year (or more) I have found Vandorens to be incredibly consistent in facing. In fact I'd throw the statistic back in the other direction. You'd have to try five or more of a specific facing to find one that may not work AS WELL as the rest.

Now I am new to the idea of the CNC machined mouthpieces, but have found the line from Ernst Schreiber (ESM) to be almost beyond consistent. I have tried quite a few of their facing specifically targeted to the American market, the MCK-1 and find them to be virtually identical. It is almost scary, and would have been completely unheard of back in the 70s and even the 80s. Back then you NEEDED a custom maker if only to get the fine details that enabled a mouthpiece to respond well particularly in the altissimo. These days that is no longer the case. And with perfectly replicable mouthpieces you can love a mouthpiece, have it smashed into a million pieces and have a clone delivered to your door in days.

I'm not saying there is no room for "gurus" anymore, just that it's becoming as lonely a job as the Maytag Repairman.

Really? You guys take perfectly usable mouthpiece these days and have them reworked?

.................Paul Aviles

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