| Thank you, Bruce. For over two years I have been enjoying your intelligent answers and offerings to the various trumpet websites.
GR is indeed a major innovator and since I went up to see him nearly two years ago, my playing has never been better. It will be just a matter of time before more of the really "big guns" start singing the praises of GR's mouthpieces.
You certainly know more about this than I do, but I have been told of some the monster players who have had GR work with them. The names I been told who have been up there lately would shock many, but I will not even hint at them. Time will show who they are.
I see nothing wrong with a clone of a good product because after all, Bach mouthpieces have been cloned or "improved" upon for years, but major innovation is altogether something else.
Sometimes there is something new under the sun.
PS. I am by day, a licensed United States Customs Broker and I see quite a bit of copyrighted items come in legally. I pray I never see the day of cheap Chinese clones of great mouthpieces come into the country. That is where I would draw the line at cloning. |