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The Chedeville "bump"

Author: Bill
Date: 2025-01-08 01:37
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Always wondered why *so* many of my qualite superieure mouthpieces have the characteristic "bump" or step between the throat and chamber. Was qualite just not all that superieure?

Bill Fogle
Ellsworth, Maine
(formerly Washington, DC)

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Re: The Chedeville "bump"

Author: donald
Date: 2025-01-09 14:34

First, none of my Chedevilles look like that. What it DOES look like is that someone has rebored the mouthpiece and that step is a result of that. This is not by any certainty a bad thing and the mouthpiece may play really well.
There is a lot of science and a lot of magic going on with mouthpiece bores- widening it at the top end was considered a hack that improved the tuning of altissimo F/F# (see articles in The Clarinet by Dan Johnson).
A Chedeville I gave to a friend was refaced by Brad Behn, and then BB rebored it making it a "reverse cone" rather than a conical (small to large) bore. This small change really opened up that mouthpiece- it's bright, but it "glows" (yes, I know that doesn't make any sense, but if you experienced this you'll know exactly what I mean).

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