J.Martin
7/17/2012 10:58:00 PM
> Oh, so he didn't even contribute to the actual "design" of the
> mouthpieces, he was just the guy who tinkered around with the CNC
> machine to grind them out?
>
Correct. He has always tried to imply he designed the mouthpiece but
if you go back in the archives far enough you'll find posts from co-
workers who explain that what he did was program the machine that
ground them out. Of course, Jeffrey will claim these people want to
slander him, etc. But there's a reason it's called a Guardala, and
not a Powell.
> Suddenly that whole story makes a whole lot more sense to me - someone
> like him who knows next to nothing about even the basics of sound, who
> doesn't even know what overtones are and who obviously has really bad
> hearing and no musical judgment at all couldn't design even a
> relatively simple aspect of a musical instrument, like the mouthpiece.
>
> That also explains why he has been out of business since the company
> collapsed - a famous "designer" like him would be very sought after,
> but he isn't one, and since he is just an untrained tinkerer with very
> limited knowledge, he has no future in CNC machining either. That's
> why he was so upset when I pointed out that CNC operators in Germany
> are usually well trained professionals, not tinkerers like him.
>
Indeed. It also explains why he would constantly be crying for
recognition in a group like this, rather than, say, giving
presentations at engineering conferences, writing books, and actually
doing engineering work.