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Cheds and Kaspars - American or International?

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2010-10-02 15:50

The current thread about Kaspars revives an old question for me. When I was growing up and studying in the late 1950s through the early 1970s, Chedeville was looked on by the clarinetists I knew as nearly the equivalent of a Strad string instrument, with Kaspars in tight competition. Which you worshipped more depended on the exact tone concept you were after. But everyone I knew either played on or was in a constant search for one of the two.

But all the players I knew personally or knew anything about were American players, most of whom had either studied at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia or had primary teachers who had studied there. Occasionally I'd run into a clarinetist trained in one of the schools in New York, and their attitudes seemed similar. At the time I had no connection with nor any real awareness of orchestral clarinet playing outside of those excellent but fairly inbred circles. So the question I keep wondering about is whether those two mouthpiece companies enjoyed the same popularity in Europe then, or for that matter, whether even now Ched and Kaspar evoke the same kind of almost mystical worship they do here. Were there other popular brands in Europe that players would have sought more than Kaspar or Chedeville?

Karl

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