Author: JHowell
Date: 2015-06-30 05:27
I have examples of most of those mouthpieces,the vintage ones anyway. One of my favorites is the Vandoren perfecta, but none of them, selmer, wells, Zinner, Riffault, Otto link, Kanter, Pyne, vary "considerably" from Chedevilles, any more than one chedeville varies from the next. I've played cheds that were faced wide open and hogged out and Riffaults with long, close facings. No matter the blank, no matter the craftsman, some mouthpieces just flat play and some don't. Yes, there were the duck-bill langenuses and the bonades with table grooves (not a modern innovation), and there is the angled Behn. But they all, even the M30D, of which I have several, are fundamentally French mouthpieces, and the differences are minute. Does the M30D have a small "Viennese" chamber? I have a Wells with a chamber that is smaller. One maker scoops the baffle deeper, another makes the bore larger, another shaves the beak down or starts with a smaller-chambered blank. None of this is revolutionary, and the qualities that make my 1920s Selmer and my Rico X5, separated by nearly 100 years, both great mouthpieces are the same. I'm certainly open to the vecchia being a great mouthpiece, but the proof will be in the playing. If the bore and chamber are small enough to play in tune I'm game.
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