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  2. Mouthpiece (brass) - Wikipedia

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    Silver plating is common on all brass mouthpieces because it is cost-effective and good in terms of tone quality. It is also moderately germicidal. Silver plating is not as comfortable [citation needed] or as expensive as gold, but has properties and qualities that some feel facilitate certain styles of playing [dubious – discuss].

  3. Dentsivka - Wikipedia

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    The dentsivka (Ukrainian: Денцівка) is a woodwind musical instrument with a fipple (mouthpiece). [1] In traditional instruments, the tuning varies with the length of the tube. It is made in a variety of different sizes: the piccolo (tuned in F), prima (in C), alto (in G), tenor (in F), and bass (in C).

  4. Gold plating - Wikipedia

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    Gold plated - gold layer thickness greater than or equal to 0.5 micron; Heavy gold plated / Vermeil - gold layer thickness greater than or equal to 2.5 micron; Gold plated silver jewellery can still tarnish as the silver atoms diffuse into the gold layer, causing slow gradual fading of its color and eventually causing tarnishing of the surface ...

  5. Fipple - Wikipedia

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    Mouthpiece of a Catalan recorder. The term fipple specifies a variety of end-blown flute that includes the flageolet, recorder, and tin whistle.The Hornbostel–Sachs system for classifying musical instruments places this group under the heading "Flutes with duct or duct flutes."

  6. Grill (jewelry) - Wikipedia

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    A gold crown. Grills can imitate and are not mutually exclusive with gold teeth, a form of permanent dental prosthesis in which the visible part of a tooth is replaced or capped with gold. Grills has its roots in the Southern U.S. This was a cultural element of poor African-American people who couldn’t afford the proper dental work.

  7. Ormolu - Wikipedia

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    French ormolu mantel clock (around 1800) by Julien Béliard (1758 – died after 1806), Paris.The clock case by Claude Galle (1758–1815) Ormolu (/ ˈ ɔːr m ə ˌ l uː /; from French or moulu 'ground/pounded gold') is the gilding technique of applying finely ground, high-carat gold–mercury amalgam to an object of bronze, and objects finished in this way.

  8. Santy Runyon - Wikipedia

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    Clinton "Santy" Runyon (July 4, 1907 – April 4, 2003) was an American saxophonist and flautist as well as a designer and manufacturer of mouthpieces for woodwind instruments. [ 1 ] Runyon's career included, among other things, playing at Al Capone 's speakeasy club, The Coliseum, and giving lessons to many musicians, including the likes of ...

  9. Mouthpiece (woodwind) - Wikipedia

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    Soprano saxophone mouthpiece. The mouthpiece of a woodwind instrument is that part of the instrument which is placed partly in the player's mouth. Single-reed instruments, capped double-reed instruments, and fipple flutes have mouthpieces while exposed double-reed instruments (apart from those using pirouettes) and open flutes do not.