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Re: Glotin Chedeville Mouthpieces/Why the high price?

Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2004-03-08 15:19

Peter Eaton makes excellent mouthpieces. He makes them mainly for English players who use his English (B&H 1010) bore clarinets, and also makes French-style mouthpieces. Since the bores of English andFrench instruments rae so different, the mouthpieces need very different bores and baffles, and they don't work well unless they match the instrument.

Eaton says he uses computer-controlled cutters that reproduce his models to within a fraction of a thousandth of an inch -- closer than he can do by hand. Nevertheless, at least when you go to him, he will do hand tweaking.

I have an Eaton French style mouthpiece that I got from him at the Clarinet Congress in London about 20 years ago. It has an excellent tone and intonation, with what my golden-eared wife calls a very "clarinetty" sound. I played it for a while and then switched to an Opperman that played a little better and gave me a wider range of tone colors.

For me, $300 is too much to pay for the Glotin, particularly for a mouthpiece that you don't go to the maker for and have the final adjustments done on the spot. Walter Grabner gets just $159 for his top model, Clark Fobes $160 and Greg Smith $200, each for a hand-finished mouthpiece that will probably outplay the Glotin, and each of which you can send back for hand adjustments if it doesn't quite work for you.

Best regards.

Ken Shaw

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