Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2008-03-09 12:21
>>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
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An excellent point. Calling one of my mouthpieces for Eb soprano a Chedeville would be out-and-out false advertising, even though in fact I think it is an old Chedeville. Unfortunately, it got "modified" by a flea market dealer who was snapping up that clarinet from another flea market dealer just as I arrived at the booth. Aw, rats! The clarinet, a Buffet, had no case. As he started to carry it off, dangling it naked from one hand, I offered him a plastic bag, but he said no thanks, he could manage.
Apparently he only got a few more feet down the row (cussing my luck, I trundled off in the opposite direction) when the deteriorated mouthpiece tenon cork let go and the mouthpiece dropped on the asphalt. My husband deduced as much when he came along a moment later and saw the guy scrambling around on his hands and knees to pick up the pieces. A few weeks later, that dealer sold the clarinet to me, at a different flea market. (He made about $20 on the deal, I think.) He'd glued the pieces of the mouthpiece back together lopsidedly and then sanded heavily to flatten out the lumpy spots. He'd sanded the tip right down into the rails. If I ever try to sell that mouthpiece as a Chedeville, somebody come lock me up. I'm just grateful he didn't drop and "repair" the whole clarinet!
Lelia
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Post Edited (2008-03-09 12:23)
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