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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2007-01-01 10:52
>>When it comes to identifying a great mouthpiece, I look for the interlocking C’s and “Artistic Facing” trademarks. This usually means that the mouthpiece is made out of good material and it is an older vintage, and it is likely to be made out of rod rubber. Those mouthpieces were most likely made during the golden era of Chedeville and typically have the greatest potential to be excellent players, assuming the chamber volume isn’t too big…as is unfortunately too often the case.
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I'm an amateur, but fwiw-- Mouthpieces with a chamber volume that's "too big" often work very well on clarinets of the same vintage that *don't* sound good with a modern mouthpiece. The wide bore mpcs (not just Chedville blanks but also other pre-WWII mpcs) are often shorter and stubbier-looking on the outside than modern mpcs and will play in tune on clarinets that sound horribly flat or tune inconsistently with the longer modern mpc. I don't know the physics of why that bigger bore works better on older clarinets, but it's definitely true with my 1931 and 1937 Buffets, both of which play well with old, squat, fat rod rubber mpcs but have serious intonation problems with modern mpcs that work well for me on modern clarinets.
Lelia
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