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Author: wjk
Date: 2006-01-18 21:48
I'm looking for a back-up mouthpiece for my Chedeville----any suggestions?
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Author: Brenda Siewert
Date: 2006-01-18 22:49
Get a good one from Greg Smith or Walter Grabner. They are both sponsors of this board and great gentlemen with a reputation for knowing a lot about Chedevilles. They will work with you to make sure you're happy. If you send them an email they will reply quickly. They'll both want to know what you're playing (clarinet brand) and what you want to accomplish with your mouthpiece.
Or, if you want to buy a new style Chedeville clone, Muncy winds has them for 300.00.
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Author: William
Date: 2006-01-19 14:27
In the recent "The Clarinet", Brad Behn has an ad where he claims to have reproduced the "exact reproduction of 1930's era Chedeville hard rubber" achieving an "exact acoustical match" of the old Ched mouthpieces. I'm wondering if any of you have tried one of his new old Chedeville clones and if you could report on how it might have played for you.
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Author: Sylvain
Date: 2006-01-19 14:44
William, wjk,
It seems there is a few mouthpiece makers who are trying to create the mouhtpice blanks from the past. Cheds come in many different flavors and assking for a backup mouthpiece for a ched is like asking for a backup for your Toyota car, without telling us which model it is, which year it was made and what engine is on it.
There are countless mouthpiece makers who are trying to design ched copies. Some like Brad Behn and Chadash-Hill went all the way to the rubber formulation, other stick to the chamber/bore/facing design. I own a CH and tried a few of Brad's and to my ear they both sound better than the Zinner/Selmer/Vandoren blanks I have. However, they are also very different from each other.
My advice is to find a reputable mouthpiece maker close to where you live, bring him your beloved Ched mouthpiece so he can measure it and match it with one of his designs while you are physically there to try it.
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Sylvain Bouix <sbouix@gmail.com>
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Author: clarnibass
Date: 2006-01-19 15:06
I see Sylvain already wrote exactly what I was going to suggest. Try to find a mouthpiece maker close to you that you can go to and let him see your current mouthpiece. If you don't have one anywhere near you the next best thing is to go to a store with a big selection of different mouthpieces and just buy the one you like the best. You might even end up finding a mouthpiece you like better than the one you play now.
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Author: Alseg
Date: 2006-01-19 15:45
I am an inveterate mpc collector
At a recent MA meeting we came up with a 12 step program.
Behn Vintage
Chadash Hill
Greg Smith
Walt Grabner
Anything not nailed down on ebay immediately sent to favorite refacer
Crystal, broken or not
Fobes
Lomax
Hite
Hawkins
Bettoney Qual Sup
(sorry, I dont "do" Pyne)
.....getting shakey
.....need a fix.......arrrrrrrghhhhhhh
Former creator of CUSTOM CLARINET TUNING BARRELS by DR. ALLAN SEGAL
-Where the Sound Matters Most(tm)-
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Author: William
Date: 2006-01-19 16:13
Sylvain--I agree fully and thanks for the report on your Behn experiance.
FYI--I pretty much have stayed with two mouthpieces my whole career: my Chicago Kaspar #14 (a Ched blank) and my custom Charlie Bay Ithica (1970 copy of my Kaspar). However, I am always intregued by the "new" products and am addicted to (at least) trying as many as I can--or can afford too, that is.
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