Klarinet Archive - Posting 000258.txt from 2005/11

From: Bart Rogers <drkevin2b@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Brad Behn
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 15:09:05 -0500

Thanks for all the info.

Anyone ever tried his Eb mouthpieces?

--- David McClune <dmcclune@-----.edu> wrote:

> From the stories I have heard....When the Chedeville
> factory was sold to
> Glotin, the machines were sold, but the old men who
> knew how everything
> worked...retired and shared none of their knowledge!
> The rubber used
> was simply what was available to them at the time.
> The formula for the
> making of that rubber causes cancer or something
> terrible, so it cannot
> be made in the US,...EPA and everything.
>
> My thought on mouthpieces is to take what is
> available and MAKE it
> work. A blank for me is just a starting point.
> Matsen liked old
> Selmers because the internal dimensions were small,
> allowing him to file
> away the chamber into shapes he preferred.
>
> The old Charles Chedevilles, which are sold all the
> time on e-bay, are
> a pain to work on. They take a great deal of filing
> to enlarge the
> chamber to contemporary standards. Then you face
> them, and rework the
> chamber even more trying to refine the tone and
> response to an
> acceptable level.
>
> My job as with Brad, Walter and many others, it to
> accept the
> mouthpiece sent to us and rework them as well as we
> can, so WE like how
> they play. You might not love it, but we make sure
> that WE could play
> on it and enjoy the sound. That might explain why
> we 'refacers'
> sometimes get mouthpieces worked on by others. We
> admire the work, yet
> redo it to our biases. Sometimes customers like
> what we do...and
> sometimes not.
>
> Hey, the mouthpiece is still a only a tool and a
> means to an end; NOT
> the end in itself.
>
> Now it is time to eat lunch and walk the dog.
> Owning a 110 pound
> Newfoundland changes your life!
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> Dr. David McClune
> Professor of Woodwinds
> Director of Bands
> Union University-1862
> 1050 Union University Drive
> Jackson, TN 38305
>
> Office-731-661-5294
> dmcclune@-----.edu
> www.mcclunemouthpiece.com
>
>
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