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Re: Henri Chedeville?

Author: chris king
Date: 2006-08-10 23:56

Well Bill there is certainly not much information to be had about H.Chedeville out there. He was a repairman who lived in Pniladelphia from the 1910/20s and finished blanks supplied by his cousin in France. He applied his own US Pat. facing and reamed the bore to his own specifications and stamped his name below the bottom ligature line. I have seen a blank of that era virtually identcal to a Henri on an old French clarinet - the bore was however smaller. Old Bettoneys with "Artistic Facing"running up the RH side of the table were probably Henri Cheds. The secret is almost certainly the material they were made from. The later rubber QS etc though good does not, for me, produce the overtones as strongly as that old rubber.
I shall be receiving a Ched style mouthpiece soon from Brad Behn and it will be interesting to compare. He has copied that old material.

Chris

PS. There is a photo of H.Chedeville standing outside his workshop with his son/apprentice. It resides in Mark Jacobi's Philly workshop so I have been told!

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