Klarinet Archive - Posting 000118.txt from 2005/10

From: X-MailScanner-tom.henson@-----.com
Subj: RE: [kl] Brad Behn
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 12:27:38 -0400

I had someone e-mail me off list and corrected a statement that I had
made about the Glotin Chedeville mouthpiece.

According to them, Chadash/Hill actually makes the mouthpieces for
Glotin. I don't know if Glotin simply purchases the blanks and applies
their own name and facing or to what degree Chadash/Hill provides a
finished product. There is some sort of working relationship between the
two parties evidently. If this is true, then that means that only two
people have attempted to recreate the old 1930's Chedeville's, not
three.

I would have thought that Glotin, having bought up Chedeville would have
had something to work from regarding the specifications of the old
Chedeville's. Perhaps they collaborated with Guy Chadash and Chris Hill
in the project. I guess the only way to get the whole story would be to
ask them, but mouthpiece makers can be quite tight lipped about what
they called "trade secrets". If I have made an incorrect statement, I
would appreciate anyone with knowledge to set the record straight. I
definitely don't want to make incomplete or false statements as fact.

Still, I admire both of these parties for attempting to apply a
scientific approach to an area that is still so misunderstood by many of
us. I for one would like to understand better how and why a mouthpiece
works. I know that on some level basic knowledge is available. But most
people making or refacing mouthpieces tend to keep a lifetime of their
work and knowledge to themselves, and for good reason. I believe we
still think about mouthpieces as part science, part mystery. The result
of an artist, and the "y" factor having that special something. Just
think where we might be if Frank Kaspar or Everett Matson had left a
detailed notebook of everything they had ever learned with detailed
explanations of cause and effect. Just think what it would be like in
college if you had a class on making reeds along with a class on
making/refacing mouthpieces. Of course a mouthpiece has such infinite
ways it can be made. Brad Behn told me that "everything seems to
influence everything" in regard to dimensions which can be applied to a
mouthpiece. Material is just one factor out of many.

Tom Henson

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