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help with old french mouthpiece identification

Author: southron
Date: 2020-01-13 06:20
Attachment: mystery-mouthpiece_PARIS.jpg (194k)

Does anyone recognize this mouthpiece?

The embossing looks as though it got a double-stamp, and I can't make out all of the letters.

It sure does look like there's an "AN" [or maybe an "ANT"] in there, but it doesn't look like Lelandais nor like Vandoren.

Instead, it looks like it's trying to spell something resembling "CHANTICLEER".

But not "Chedeville".

See the attachment.

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Re: help with old french mouthpiece identification

Author: southron
Date: 2020-01-13 06:31

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Post Edited (2020-01-13 06:33)

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Re: help with old french mouthpiece identification

Author: southron
Date: 2020-01-13 06:32
Attachment: looks-like-bettoney.png (808k)

In this old thread, from 2008, concerning "Qualite Superieure" mouthpieces, it looks like it might have been made from the same blank as was the Bettoney mouthpiece:

http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?f=1&i=278108&t=278108

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Re: help with old french mouthpiece identification

Author: Bill
Date: 2020-01-15 00:23

Ha ha! Funny to click on the photo and see my old line-up from long ago! I did it on my piano music stand! For me, your mouthpiece has two characteristic that are familiar: (1) logo on bottom (not middle) of tenon and (2) one line up, one line down blank. I will be shot dead (again!) by the professionals here, but to me that adds up to 1940s era Chedeville blank. There's probably not a "FRANCE" to the side because you've got "PARIS" on the front. Is there an "M" or "MO" stamped to the right (on the shoulder) of the table?

Bill Fogle
Ellsworth, Maine
(formerly Washington, DC)

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Re: help with old french mouthpiece identification

Author: seabreeze
Date: 2020-01-15 00:35

Can you show photos of the side and tip rails, and also the tone chamber?

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