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Re: Chedeville Mouthpiece Question

Author: NBeaty
Date: 2013-05-10 14:05
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The original facings on CH. Chedevilles like this one are typically awful. Kind of like a Porsche with rims, no tires. No way to tell if it's a particularly good blank until someone puts a real facing on it.

The no. 9's are also usually very open at the tip. I have 3 of them and they all had to be closed 10-15 points to play well. They are fantastic mouthpieces though. Not as good as golden era quality rubber, but definitely better than zinner\vandoren\rico etc.

Some people will say that post-war chedevilles "aren't real chedevilles". The fact of the matter is that Kaspar used these blanks for many many mouthpieces, both Kaspars for that matter. Other companies had these blanks and did a wide range of things to them, sometimes successfully and sometimes not. They are still very high quality mouthpieces when worked on by someone who knows what they're doing.

Here's one of my No. 9's.

P.S. If you look closely there's a scroll chedeville I've been working on on the table to the left in the first pic.

Post Edited (2013-05-10 14:11)

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