After looking for over five years, my customer finally found it. An original Gale Hollywood mouthpiece to go with his Conn Transitional baritone. The only downside was that it had an epoxied crack in the shank. The sound was phenomenal but pushing it onto the neck cork was beyond nerve-racking. (It’s amazing that any of these pieces remain today given how thin the hard rubber is on the shank. That’s probably why Mulligan’s piece had such a big band on it.) My goal was to machine the taper on the inside of the band to perfectly match the taper on the outside of the shank in order to provide the necessary support. An ideal blend of epoxy sealed the deal and now I have one very pleased bari player.
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Brilhart Tonalins. Great mouthpieces. But they can crack. I have one dyed-in-the-wool Brilhart fanatic who had me create brass bands for all his pieces. As he says, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”
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Biteplates. Can’t play without them. However no one wants to play a vintage piece with missing chunks of biteplate or major tooth indentations. I can custom-fit a new hard rubber biteplate to your mouthpiece. Never know it wasn’t original and it feels so much better.
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