8.8 or 88 ??

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bort wrote:I said "apparently," but I believe the person who told me.
Told you that they're made in a different factory, than where they used to be made. Then
kmorgancraw wrote: The idea that Custom Music is peddling fake or low quality PT mouthpieces is ridiculous.
... is a reasonably true statement? Unless the quality of mouthpieces depends on their having been made in the same factory. As a general principle, the notion that some enterprise might peddle low quality mouthpieces is fairly easy for me to swallow, but I don't see any particular reason to say that in this case.
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Unless Custom is also replicating the genuine boxes they sell the PT mouthpieces in then I might agree. They have/had a huge surplus of them and I have bought several from them that come in as genuine as you can get. I think the above statements are disingenuous at best for a reputable company. The knockoffs that Bob is talking about are not marked or engraved with any numbers or letters on them and can occasionally be found on eBay or other parts of the web. (Oh yeah 88 posts, :lol: LOL)
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Im not sure what I said about quality, but whatever.
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bloke wrote:This may have been my best troll ever. :shock: 8)


Excellent work sir.
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BLOKE YOU DID IT AGAIN
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bloke wrote:This may have been my best troll ever. :shock: 8)
Priceless!
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Custom Music's web-site is a joke. A person who visited the place not too long ago said the address as presented in Ferndale is now an empty building and at the new address, none of the instruments shown are available. Seems they are now selling plastic flowers.

Too bad, it was once a really great place for tuba players.

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E. Green wrote:Custom Music's web-site is a joke. A person who visited the place not too long ago said the address as presented in Ferndale is now an empty building and at the new address, none of the instruments shown are available. Seems they are now selling plastic flowers.

Too bad, it was once a really great place for tuba players.

Eugene
The address in Farmington Hills is legit, I think Ferndale is the old address. I suppose believing everything you hear online could be the issue here, plastic flowers? Any proof of that?
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And let us not forget that 88 mph is the speed necessary to get us back to the future.
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