I don't know of a solution to rid the dings in the metal and plating, but if you have some raw brass exposed try a clear nail polish top. Kinda like a sealer coat for nail polish. Seeing as i don't use nail polish, i don't know the name for it off of the top of my head. It is the clear stuff though. Re-plating a mouthpiece, in my opinion, is iffy at best. You may just buy a new one cause it may not be the same piece once it gets re-plated. the plater will have to strip off some of the metal and then re-plate it. So, unfortunately, I am not in the know of any long lasting way to rid yourself of those dents. Good Luck on your search.
Matt
Chipped mouthpiece - what to do?
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The nick is on the outer part of the rim. If I could position the mouthpiece so the nick doesn't irritate the lips, then I would just do that.
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Bummer, Dude.
I concur with the other posts. Your PT-48 just became a spare. I know that's tough for a student.
Similar situation last week - we were playing in a cathedral and the conductor had us take a bow in the middle of the program. I put my MPC in my pocket, took the bow, and sat down. After I put the MPC back in I realized I had dropped my towel (insert Hitchhikers Guide joke of your choice here)
When I bent to pick up my towel - you guessed it! Do you have any idea how much noise a Arnold Jacobs makes hitting a marble floor in an echo-prone church?
Totally mangled the shank but got lucky on the business end. Shanks are much easier to fix than rim nicks.
I concur with the other posts. Your PT-48 just became a spare. I know that's tough for a student.
Similar situation last week - we were playing in a cathedral and the conductor had us take a bow in the middle of the program. I put my MPC in my pocket, took the bow, and sat down. After I put the MPC back in I realized I had dropped my towel (insert Hitchhikers Guide joke of your choice here)
When I bent to pick up my towel - you guessed it! Do you have any idea how much noise a Arnold Jacobs makes hitting a marble floor in an echo-prone church?
Totally mangled the shank but got lucky on the business end. Shanks are much easier to fix than rim nicks.-
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During my college days, the same thing happened to my mouthpiece. I ended up buying a new one, and selling the old one to my good friend in the tuba studio (and I believe he still plays on it!). Strangely enough, the nicks were not SO BAD that it was unplayable; your mouthpiece looks the same way. Don't get rid of it; if you want another, newer mpc, get one, but keep the old one!
While we're on this topic, my former colleague Jim Pandolfi (trumpet) used to practice his golf swing in his Manhattan apartment (with a net up, of course!!). Apparently, one day he was taking a practice break to do some drives, so he left his horn on his chair while he took his swing, and ended up hitting the mouthpiece directly on the rim, taking a huge divot (no pun intended) out of it. Jim was quite attached to this mouthpiece, so he found a solution: he rotated the mouthpiece so the "divot" didn't affect his embouchure.
Some years later, after buying tons of mouthpieces trying to find something that could replace it, he put the old one away.
(This story is as accurate as I can recall, so if I talk to Jim soon, I will ask him if I got it right!)
Chris H.
While we're on this topic, my former colleague Jim Pandolfi (trumpet) used to practice his golf swing in his Manhattan apartment (with a net up, of course!!). Apparently, one day he was taking a practice break to do some drives, so he left his horn on his chair while he took his swing, and ended up hitting the mouthpiece directly on the rim, taking a huge divot (no pun intended) out of it. Jim was quite attached to this mouthpiece, so he found a solution: he rotated the mouthpiece so the "divot" didn't affect his embouchure.
Some years later, after buying tons of mouthpieces trying to find something that could replace it, he put the old one away.
(This story is as accurate as I can recall, so if I talk to Jim soon, I will ask him if I got it right!)
Chris H.