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Author: clarinet60
Date: 2013-01-08 15:10
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Just curious - I received a mouthpiece marked Pruefer (no other markings) which came with a clarinet which was supposedly made in the 1930's. i have not tried it yet. I've attached an image and was hoping some of the mouthpiece experts to tell me if its a Ched or Lelandais and any other info that might be pertinent. Thanks.
Post Edited (2013-01-08 19:56)
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Author: SteveG_CT
Date: 2013-01-08 20:32
There is no real way of telling who made the mouthpiece and it may even have been made by Pruefer. If nothing else you may find this post by Brad Behn (a prominent mouthpiece maker and refacer) regarding the early Pruefer mouthpieces to be interesting:
http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?f=1&i=235131&t=235124
Basically you have a mouthpiece that could serve as a good quality blank for refacing but probably isn't anything special in it's current state.
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Author: JHowell
Date: 2013-01-09 01:40
Those can be good. Want to sell it? : )
It is a French blank. More than that is difficult to say. There are those, primarily online auction sellers, who will call anything with the double ligature line a Chedeville.
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Author: clarinet60
Date: 2013-01-09 16:07
I did finally have a chance to play on this piece and it seems to have a very close facing and plays nicely (although I'm sure a top refinisher could make it even better). It seems to have the original facing. Since this piece is supposedly from a 1930's instrument, and the previous writer in this board suggests it's from France, I wonder if it would be a Riffault, Ched, Lelandais, or other? Looking at the images that I provided in my original post, I thought that the narrow spacing of the two lines might suggest it's from Chedeville?
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Author: JHowell
Date: 2013-01-09 21:59
It is not a Riffault.
There is such a hodgepodge of markings on French mouthpieces that it is possible to say that almost any mouthpiece with the double ligature lines is a Chedeville or a Lelandais, if you're willing to extrapolate beyond available information.
We have to remember that mouthpieces supplied with instruments are not normally manufactured to the same standard as mouthpieces made to compete with other mouthpieces. The liberal interpretation (again, highly popular with sellers) that the double ligature line EQUALS Chedeville, is, in my opinion, misleading, although sometimes a grain of truth is enough. There are lots of different vintage mouthpieces with the two ligature lines, and any of them can be excellent, or horrible. If your blank is excellent, it's one of the excellent ones.
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