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Re: Henri Chedeville?

Author: Brad Behn
Date: 2006-08-16 18:38

Allan,

Thanks for explaining all that business with the Brevete SGDG etc.

About the "Artistic Facing" marked mouthpieces, they were made in France at the Chedeville factory. I find it unlikely that Henri worked them. Henri had a small business in PA where he repaired instruments, refaced mouthpieces, and remanufactured mouthpieces from Chedeville blanks. He acquired blanks from the Chedeville factory, crafted them to his ideals, marked them "H. Chedeville" and the rest is history...

Those older "Superieure Qualite" mouthpieces were excellent as well. The newer ones marked "Qualite Superieure" were made as recently as the 70's but they too can be quite nice players. I have seen a few mouthpieces that were marked "Qualitie Superieure" that were very different than the newer 70's versions, and they were very good too.

Some of the newer mouthpieces marked "Qualite Superieure" were: Bonade, Ch. Chedeville, Delacroix, DuPre, Lelandais, Thibaville, Freeman, etc. These mouthpieces were most likely made in the 60s-70s and Kaspar used them as well. He would turn them down on the lathe and remove the trademark and then stamp his trademark.

Some of the better old mouthpieces marked "Superieure Qualite" were produced by Bettoney, but made at the Chedeville factory in France.

The older Lelandais marked "Qualite Superieure" could be excellent too.

Brad Behn
http://www.clarinetmouthpiece.com

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