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Author: CPW
Date: 2003-04-12 16:14
I was having a discussion about old mpcs. and the name Bettany came up.
I have not heard of them and I am not sure of the spelling. Any info?
I think they might be French ( I mean Freedom, sorry) and contemporanous with Chedeville etc.
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2003-04-12 22:30
CPW, Harry Bettoney, in Boston, made clarinets from about 1900 to 1930[+?], many woods for the armed services, [I have an old USN], and many metals, best of which was the Silva Bet. I have an H Bettoney Boston hard rubber mp, only fair [for me] in comparison with more modern mps. I'd venture a guess that he bought his mps from the Woodwind Co, in NYC, one of the major US mp makers of that time period. Quality/facings??, if you like it , play it. Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: CPW
Date: 2003-04-13 02:55
Thanks........gee, I guess its not a french mpc....just uses the blanks.
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Author: jim lande
Date: 2003-04-13 04:02
According to the New Langwell index, Cundy Bettoney was the largest seller of clarinets and flutes in the early 1920s. Apparently some of their mouthpieces were made with Chedeville hard rubber blanks. These are desired by mouthpiece collectors as well as some players who believe that the old hard rubber mpcs were better quality than what is offered today. (The theory is that the industrial process used to produce the rubber cannot pass current environmental specs.) I used to have a hard rubber marked "H.Bettoney". The mouthpiece had almost no set to it and I couldn't get it to play. I swapped it and $100 for a Silva Bet. (the metal clarinet mentioned by Don.).
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