"Mica matic"?

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"Mica matic"?

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Any idea what it means?

An old mouthpiece says it.


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Re: "Mica matic"?

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Some cursory searching of this maker on the trumpet forum points towards them being made by Lausman(n) ca. late 1940s postwar.
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Many thanks!

And sorry i'm too lazy to recall exactly how i posted pictures when i did... (undoubtedly involves logging into something i logged into long enough ago even odds i forgot ye olde passworde.

So i sent 'em on to @arpthark, slept and tuba christmased, and paraded, and am enjoying Taco Johns on my way home.
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Hmmm...

HornGuys apparently sell CNC replicas of Lausmann mouthpieces.

And there's this inteview: https://www.namm.org/library/oral-hist ... f-lausmann

Will i find anything else? is it referring to mica, the shiny flaky crystals occasionally found in rocks?

Or is there some other clever branding or wordplay going on?

I actually think it is a pretty good mouthpiece.
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