Posted by accountant on January 23, 2001 at 04:19:22:
In Reply to: Gold vs. Silver Mouthpieces posted by Matthew Smith on January 23, 2001 at 01:15:12:
Gold means $50 more for the exact same mouthpiece. The Bach mouthpieces are just electroplated with not enough gold to do anything but make the retailors $50 more profit. I suspect the same goes for Schilke and Helleberg mouthpieces. I've only played one mouthpiece where I thought the gold plating actually made a difference in the sound... it was a screw-rim gold mouthpiece(just the rim was gold) purchased by a friend of mine at the Army conference last year.