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Re: Chedeville ID

Author: seabreeze
Date: 2016-10-30 19:31

Rueben,

Exactly, Bonade is also a sort of American eagle made from a French blank!

Back in the 1950s, I believe, American clarinetist David Weber interviewed some clarinetists in the Guarde Republican Band for the Clarinet magazine. Weber reported that none of the French players had even heard of Daniel Bonade. When Weber mentioned American players the French clarinetist he was interviewing "curled his lip," took up his clarinet and "began to play with a [deliberately] bad tone" in mockery. Weber found most of the Guarde Republican clarinetists were playing Vandoren mouthpieces, probably 2RVs. When he mentioned Louis Cahuzac, he got a spark of recognition and approval, but noted that already by that time double lip playing was considered old school in France. Cahuzac, by the way, played Vandoren Diamond Perfectas and maybe Selmers sometimes for most of his career. There is no evidence that he ever had any interest in Chedeville peices, certainly not American Henri Ched peices.

Everyone has their own favorite modern H. Ched copy. Don Montanaro (Philadelphia Orchestra, Curtis Institute) had his own Ched in mind when he helped design the Series 13 mouthpieces for Vandoren (especially the M13 and M15), and Chris Hill has an H. Chedeville model. The D'Addario Reserve mouthpiece is also Ched based. My personal favorite H. Ched copy/creative re-creation is the SMALL chamber EPIC model offered by Brad Behn. Of all the mouthpieces I own, that is the one I play the most. It has many of the characterics I tried to describe in my brief examination of the Old Ched Myth.

There are many players out there who know more about H. Cheds than I, and I wish they would jump into the discussion.

Post Edited (2016-10-31 03:38)

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