Because of a disc drive crash, I was remeasuring a couple of my favorite pieces so that I would have the facing curve on hand.  I have a Woodwind Co. NY alto piece that's a B5^A (marked on the table) and a tenor Woodwind Sparkleaire that's a B5* (on the table).  

The tenor B5* is hard to read, so I put it under the magnifying glass.  Stamped over the faint B5* is "meYer" and underneath that is a stamped "6".  The stamp on the table isn't the later diamond logo and it has the meYer distinctive font, but the letters are really tiny, like 1mm.  Smaller than any other meYer stamp I can find in pictures on the web. It's so small that it looks like a special stamp for refacing work.

The opening is .082, which is much closer to a meYer 6 than a Woodwinds B5* (.064).  But a meYer 6 measuring .083 is closer to a "newer" (Babbit) facing than an older Meyer Bros. facing.  Has anybody seen this before or know if the brothers or Babbit did "meYer" refacing?

Mark

  Hi Mark,  I haven't seen it but I am sure that both Meyer and Otto Link did refacing. It was all hand work so it would have been a cinch  for any of their employees to do refacing.   Besides sending goods  back to companies for repairs, refurbishing  etc was very common. A few still do it. An 83 year old dog walking friend just sent his 30 year old raincoat back to be re-treated.  Peter.

--- On Wed, 9/14/11, Mark <marklfleming@...> wrote:

From: Mark <marklfleming@...>
Subject: [MouthpieceWork] Did meYer do in-house refacing?
To: MouthpieceWork@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, September 14, 2011, 10:48 AM















 
 



  


    
      
      
      Because of a disc drive crash, I was remeasuring a couple of my favorite pieces so that I would have the facing curve on hand.  I have a Woodwind Co. NY alto piece that's a B5^A (marked on the table) and a tenor Woodwind Sparkleaire that's a B5* (on the table).  



The tenor B5* is hard to read, so I put it under the magnifying glass.  Stamped over the faint B5* is "meYer" and underneath that is a stamped "6".  The stamp on the table isn't the later diamond logo and it has the meYer distinctive font, but the letters are really tiny, like 1mm.  Smaller than any other meYer stamp I can find in pictures on the web. It's so small that it looks like a special stamp for refacing work.



The opening is .082, which is much closer to a meYer 6 than a Woodwinds B5* (.064).  But a meYer 6 measuring .083 is closer to a "newer" (Babbit) facing than an older Meyer Bros. facing.  Has anybody seen this before or know if the brothers or Babbit did "meYer" refacing?



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Hi there,
i've seen some Brillahrt HR tenor with a meyer facing (with the meyer logo stamped on the table)
so  guess they did do some work on other pieces.
Francois

Le 14 sept. 2011 à 20:05, Peter Deley a écrit :

>   Hi Mark,
>   I haven't seen it but I am sure that both Meyer and Otto Link did refacing. It was all hand work so it would have been a cinch  for any of their employees to do refacing.
>    Besides sending goods  back to companies for repairs, refurbishing  etc was very common. A few still do it. An 83 year old dog walking friend just sent his 30 year old raincoat back to be re-treated.
>   Peter.
> 
> --- On Wed, 9/14/11, Mark <marklfleming@...> wrote:
> 
> From: Mark <marklfleming@...>
> Subject: [MouthpieceWork] Did meYer do in-house refacing?
> To: MouthpieceWork@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Wednesday, September 14, 2011, 10:48 AM
> 
>  
> Because of a disc drive crash, I was remeasuring a couple of my favorite pieces so that I would have the facing curve on hand. I have a Woodwind Co. NY alto piece that's a B5^A (marked on the table) and a tenor Woodwind Sparkleaire that's a B5* (on the table). 
> 
> The tenor B5* is hard to read, so I put it under the magnifying glass. Stamped over the faint B5* is "meYer" and underneath that is a stamped "6". The stamp on the table isn't the later diamond logo and it has the meYer distinctive font, but the letters are really tiny, like 1mm. Smaller than any other meYer stamp I can find in pictures on the web. It's so small that it looks like a special stamp for refacing work.
> 
> The opening is .082, which is much closer to a meYer 6 than a Woodwinds B5* (.064). But a meYer 6 measuring .083 is closer to a "newer" (Babbit) facing than an older Meyer Bros. facing. Has anybody seen this before or know if the brothers or Babbit did "meYer" refacing?
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
>