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Re: Back-up Mouthpiece for a Chedeville

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.

-S

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Sylvain Bouix <sbouix@gmail.com>

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