Copstolemywife
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After all, they are just a piece of plastic or metal or rubber or whatever whith a hole through. Fair enough they have to be machined and the profile worked out to get the sound. But at the end of the day there is nothing to them. I have worked machine tools and something like that would take a few minutes to make and could be churned out in their hundreds every day. A sax on the other hand takes far longer and has many more man hours to manufacture and uses more fuels in the manufacture. I have seen mouthpieces for hundreds of pounds on sale. Compare these to the pure mechanical marvel that a saxophone is and the workmanship and time spent making the sax and there is no comparison but at the lower end (i.e. bauhaus walstein etc) there isn't much difference in price, how can that be justified? I hear people talking about how the mouthpiece is the most important bit but there is no way I could ever spend money that took me days to earn on something that takes minutes to make. I think someone is seriously extracting the urine with these prices.:shocked: