Beware of those cheap Chinese made metal sax mouthpieces!

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You will see inexpensive metal sax mouthpieces sold on ebay.  I bought a couple from someone stateside, but you also see the same items coming from China.  They are cheap Chinese knock-offs of well known brands.  As a matter of fact, I see over on the right some of the very same sort of mouthpieces are showing!

They claim to be silver or gold plated, but the plating on mine was really a form of metallic looking plastic coating.  The so called "plating" peeled off of mine when I put on a mouthpiece pad and then tried to reposition it.  I was shocked to have the plating peel off and find out it was not even metal plating!

I got no response at all from the seller.  By the way, the ones I got, one silver and one gold, both played very flat on my tenor sax.  Fortunately, I have a C melody, and they played in pitch on that and gave it a jazzier sound.  That is the only positive thing about them.

So buyer beware!  These are being sold absolutely falsely advertised.  A silvery looking plastic plating is not a silver plating! And all that glitters is not gold!