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Re: Very old Penzel-Mueller mouthpieces

Author: LarryBocaner ★2017
Date: 2005-03-12 21:22

This can be confusing. Mouthpieces labeled Ch. Chedeville (or Lelandais) were marketed in the US either as finished products or as rod rubber blanks supplied to mouthpiece makers in the US and in France. Henri Chedeville was a cousin of Charles Chedeville. He was a woodwind repairman in Philadelphia, I'm told, in the first third of the 20th century. The mouthpieces that he finished, using his cousin's blanks, are the legendary "Chedevilles" that are so much sought after. Apparently there was a period where he supplied finished mouthpieces to Penzel-Mueller, which were stenciled Penzel-Mueller, not H. Chedeville.

Chedeville/Lelandais still manufactures mouthpieces (and blanks) in France.
David Hite told me he used C/L blanks for many (if not all) of his mouthpieces, until the French company was sold to Glotin (I'm guessing about 20 years ago) and the new owners raised the prices radically.

I suspect that a 1920 P-M mouthpiece is very likely a Henri Chedeville!

What's in a name--I had a new student bring in a Bundy moputhpiece this week that played and sounded just great!

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