Author: seabreeze
Date: 2018-03-02 21:46
Approximately from the 1920s to the 1950s, Charles Chedeville was a major producer and supplier of clarinet mouthpiece blanks. These blanks were used in many mouthpiece brands, including Henri Chedeville in Philadelphia, Penn. (USA), Evette and Shaffer, Buffet, Frank Kaspar and Frank L. Kaspar (USA), Bettony, A.Lelandais, and many others. But Selmer and Vandoren seem to have produced their own blanks rather than use Cheds. The same Chedeville evidently made reeds as well. Chedeville blanks were not all of equal quality. There was a lot of internal variation in the measurement and the best quality rubber seems to have been in the blanks made from the 1920s to the early 1940s. Alelandais took over the company, and the blanks from the 1950s, though often good, are not so highly valued.
How do the reeds play after all these years?
Post Edited (2018-03-03 04:16)
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