Klarinet Archive - Posting 000795.txt from 2004/01

From: Elgenubi@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl]Buffet Mouthpiece being called a Chedeville??
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 02:55:18 -0500

I'll be darned. So the old Buffet mouthpiece I got in 1960 with my Evette
Schaeffer is a Chedeville blank. I'm bemused; when I was in college and learned
that I should get a 'real' mouthpiece, I put it away, assumed it was
worthless, and never looked back. I bought a Borbeck 13 in about 1972, and I believe
that turns out to be a 'Chediville blank, too.

I have a real question, though. How much unfinished is a 'blank'? Does it
need the bore, the baffle, the face, or what else to be finished? How did get
this custom get started of respectable companies making blanks, and then
others finishing them? What then is so good about a Chedeville, or some other
'blank'. Am I the only one confused?

Wayne Thompson

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