Klarinet Archive - Posting 000175.txt from 2011/07

From: Georg.Kuehner@-----.de (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Georg_K=FChner?=)
Subj: Re: [kl] A dip in the table.
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 13:28:00 -0400

Hello,

I'm back from holiday. I request a dip because I play old fashioned German system kind of opening!
You need the so called "Hohlkehle" to make the reed vibrate. And the power you use with the STRING ligature gives you the possibility to finetune the whole thing:-))

Regards Georg

Am 24.07.2011 um 20:01 schrieb Mike Vaccaro:

> LLoyd
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> 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.
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> Mike Vaccaro
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> SaxandClarinetMouthpieces.Com
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> I have been deluged with questions off the air but with a little
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> amplification here most should be answered.
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> For the last 5 years I have worked to perfect a recreation of the old
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> Chedeville rod rubber and CNC techniques to shape them into mouthpieces.
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> Brad Behn and I just had a long thread going on the Bulletin Board "Most
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> Chedeville-Like" which is a pretty fair explanation of how we both arrived
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> on the rubber formulation we feel is most Chedeville like.
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> Chedeville will introduce a line of Professional Chedeville (I own the
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> international copyright on Chedeville name mark and trademark) clarinet
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> mouthpieces at ClarinetFest in LA in a week. Our business plan includes 4
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> variations of a blank and facings copied from and old Henri Chedeville
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> mouthpiece and a Charles Chedeville mouthpiece. We also are going to offer
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> blanks to custom mouthpiece makers of the two blanks used for our own
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> mouthpieces. I have sent out sample blanks (#1) to several mouthpiece makers
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> asking for their recommendations on what they like and do not like about
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> using a particular blank to make their rendition of a custom mouthpiece. I
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> will then make changes in the future blanks from a consensus of these
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> observations. With CNC machined mouthpieces it is relatively easy to make
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> tweaks that are impossible with molded mouthpieces without changing the
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> cores. I will have Blanks 1 & 2 for sale at ClarinetFest in lots of 5 or
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> more.
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> The present blanks have a slight dip in the table which many say is
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> characteristic of Zinner and some Babbitt blanks that they now use but
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> others say that they only use a flat table to make their facings - different
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> strokes for different folks. Mike Lomax is using one of the Chedeville
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> blanks to offer a new premium mouthpiece called The Firebird - perhaps after
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> our logo which features a Phoenix rising from the ashes
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> The third prong of our offerings will be an intermediate mouthpiece that has
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> one consensus facing and is also CNC machined from hard rubber called
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> Chedeville "Prime" at an affordable price.
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> I am not and will not be a custom mouthpiece maker, only a mouthpiece
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> manufacturer.
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> L. Omar Henderson
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