Klarinet Archive - Posting 000058.txt from 1998/02

From: Mitch Bassman <mbassman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: Chedeville Bass mpc
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:29:04 -0500

Simon Aldrich of Montreal wrote to the Klarinet list more than a week ago:
>Mitch - It's curious. I know someone with a Kaspar bass mouthpiece
>and he is as effusive in his love for that mouthpiece
>as you are for your Chedeville bass mouthpiece. But one almost never
>comes across bass mouthpieces by these two makers. They seem to have
>been great bass mouthpiece makers but rarely made them.
>Anyone know why?

I was hoping someone who really knows (perhaps a mouthpiece maker) might
respond, but so far there's been no comment. Could it something as simple
as very few bass clarinetists ordered the mouthpieces, so very few were
made? Does anybody out there really know?

Mitch Bassman