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Graftonite mouthpiece

Author: Tony F
Date: 2017-09-16 17:19

Mention was made in another subject heading of the Graftonite mouthpiece by Rico. Personally I have found these to be awful, perhaps the worst production mouthpiece I have ever come across. A while ago I acquired one of these in as-new condition with an instrument that I bought. Out of interest I tried it out, and to my great surprise it played extremely well.

This wasn't what I was expecting, and I tried another Graftonite from my junk box. As I expected, it was a piece of junk. Back to the first one and it played like a winner. There's no evidence of any reworking on it and the finish is pretty much as it came out of the factory. Something of a mystery. I can only assume that this is a case of this one being at the extreme edge of manufacturing specifications, far enough out of spec to take it into another dimension. It would have been great if they had made them all to this spec.

Tony F.

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