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Re: LeBlanc-Woodwind Legend series mouthpiece

Author: Gregory Smith ★2017
Date: 2008-03-08 23:21

sbrodt54 said: ....

Hi Scott:

If I may jump in (as my name was mentioned), you've asked a very perceptive question - perhaps a question that can only be answered in a way reflective of one's own personal philosophy.

IMO, there are no hard and fast rules that are adequate enough to definitively and singularly "name" a mouthpiece's maker or designer without also acknowledging it's history.

My own philosophy is that any mouthpiece that is modified would be properly referred to as made by _______ and modified by _______ and ______ , no matter the contribution "ratio" involved.

That kind of history would differentiate it from all other mouthpieces in the most honest as well as illuminative of ways. (I know that for instance many violins have a traceable history that identify most if not all of their modifiers and exactly what those modifications have been.)

For example, to be accurate about material, one would have to identify the blank that Kaspar used when referring to his mouthpieces as either Chedville based (Chicago or Cicero vintage designed) or Buffet or Babbit based - the blanks that he used after Chedeville was acquired by the Glotin company in the late 1960's.

Even some of the Buffet or Evette Schaffer blanks that he had saved up and used from old clarinets were made by the Chedeville company although the rubber formula was not the same as the higher quality Chedeville material.

In other words I don't think it's a matter so much of one ultimately and singularly *possessing* a design but rather being accurate about it's linage.

Gregory Smith

http://www.gregory-smith.com
new model, new barrel

Post Edited (2008-03-09 00:13)

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