Klarinet Archive - Posting 000155.txt from 2011/07

From: "Mike Vaccaro" <mike@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] A dip in the table.
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 14:01:42 -0400

LLoyd

I prefer a flat table. That's just how I think it works best. I do remember
Glen Johnston ALWAYS making a dip in the middle of the table of his
mouthpieces though. It just did not work as well for me.

Mike Vaccaro

SaxandClarinetMouthpieces.Com

I have been deluged with questions off the air but with a little

amplification here most should be answered.

For the last 5 years I have worked to perfect a recreation of the old

Chedeville rod rubber and CNC techniques to shape them into mouthpieces.

Brad Behn and I just had a long thread going on the Bulletin Board "Most

Chedeville-Like" which is a pretty fair explanation of how we both arrived

on the rubber formulation we feel is most Chedeville like.

Chedeville will introduce a line of Professional Chedeville (I own the

international copyright on Chedeville name mark and trademark) clarinet

mouthpieces at ClarinetFest in LA in a week. Our business plan includes 4

variations of a blank and facings copied from and old Henri Chedeville

mouthpiece and a Charles Chedeville mouthpiece. We also are going to offer

blanks to custom mouthpiece makers of the two blanks used for our own

mouthpieces. I have sent out sample blanks (#1) to several mouthpiece makers

asking for their recommendations on what they like and do not like about

using a particular blank to make their rendition of a custom mouthpiece. I

will then make changes in the future blanks from a consensus of these

observations. With CNC machined mouthpieces it is relatively easy to make

tweaks that are impossible with molded mouthpieces without changing the

cores. I will have Blanks 1 & 2 for sale at ClarinetFest in lots of 5 or

more.

The present blanks have a slight dip in the table which many say is

characteristic of Zinner and some Babbitt blanks that they now use but

others say that they only use a flat table to make their facings - different

strokes for different folks. Mike Lomax is using one of the Chedeville

blanks to offer a new premium mouthpiece called The Firebird - perhaps after

our logo which features a Phoenix rising from the ashes

The third prong of our offerings will be an intermediate mouthpiece that has

one consensus facing and is also CNC machined from hard rubber called

Chedeville "Prime" at an affordable price.

I am not and will not be a custom mouthpiece maker, only a mouthpiece

manufacturer.

L. Omar Henderson

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