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Author: Bill
Date: 2019-02-12 08:07
(1) If you buy a 2RV or 5RV lyre (or B45, etc.) Vandoren clarinet mouthpiece from the 70s or 80s or 90s, is it 440 pitch or *higher*?
(2) Did Meliphone -- that most desired of old mouthpiece labels -- ever make *plastic* mouthpieces? Was plastic around in 1925?
Bill Fogle
Ellsworth, Maine
(formerly Washington, DC)
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Author: Luuk ★2017
Date: 2019-02-13 14:45
What is meant by 'plastic'? Bakelite was patented in 1909. Development of thermoplastics started in 1930s...
Regards,
Luuk
Philips Symphonic Band
The Netherlands
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Author: Bill
Date: 2019-02-13 18:03
Luuk wrote:
> What is meant by 'plastic'? Bakelite was patented in 1909.
> Development of thermoplastics started in 1930s...
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Right. Sorry. OK, so I got a Meliphone clarinet mouthpiece with the "Meliphone" etc. in a dotted circle at the back bottom of the mouthpiece, the type of signage that indicates a mouthpiece from the 20s/30s but certainly no later than 1940s.
It just can't be hard rubber. The mouthpiece shines like it is wet. Perhaps it is bakelite, which would certainly fit the Meliphone era.
I was just surprised that these coveted old Meliphones (the ones with "MELIPHONE" in all caps are the most desirable for collectors, rather than what I have) would be anything other than hard rubber (or wood).
Bill Fogle
Ellsworth, Maine
(formerly Washington, DC)
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Author: Bob Bernardo
Date: 2019-02-14 09:27
Bakelite is toxic. Don't think it was ever used for mouthpieces. Well I hope not.
Meliphone was made by Chedeville. A hidden secret not too many people know this.
Designer of - Vintage 1940 Cicero Mouthpieces and the La Vecchia mouthpieces
Yamaha Artist 2015
Post Edited (2019-02-14 09:29)
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