Model:  Chedeville Hard Rubber

Sax: tenor

Material:  hard rubber

Chamber:

Baffle:

Description:  This hard rubber Chedville tenor mouthpiece reads “C/C” and “Ch. Chedville Paris”.

Model:  Chedeville Metal

Sax:  alto

Material:  metal

Chamber:  medium

Baffle:  roll-over

Description:  This rare metal Charles Chedeville alto mouthpiece has “CCI” or “CC1” in stylized letters on the top of the body, two rings etched in the shank, and 7 tip opening marked on the side near the table, and a brown biteplate. A rollover baffle opens to a medium large round chamber. Tip opening is .096”. A second example of this mouthpiece, not pictured, has a 9 tip opening that measures .105”.

Model:  Chedville Metal

Sax: tenor

Material:  metal

Chamber:  medium

Baffle:  roll-over

Description:  Same as the above for a tenor saxophone. It is marked with an 8 tip opening and measures 0.106”.

Charles Chedeville was based in France and produced of a large number of clarinet and saxophone mouthpieces in the 1930s/40s, third in production to Vandoren and Selmer. The Chedeville company was taken over by Lalandais in 1949, another French maker of mouthpieces which are similar in design to the the Chedevilles.  Another French company, Glotin, presently markets a mouthpiece with the Charles Chedeville name, but this mouthpiece does not have the same reputation as earlier Chedevilles. The original Chedeville company supplied blanks (unfinished mouthpieces) to several mouthpiece makers including Frank and Frank L. Kaspar of Chicago and Ann Arbor (until 1970). Buffet and Bundy supplied Chedeville-made mouthpieces with their clarinets and saxophones.

Model:  Chedeville Radio

Sax: soprano

Material:  hard rubber

Chamber:

Baffle:

Description:  This is a soprano hard rubber “Radio” Chedville mouthpiece, stamped “Paris”, “RADIO”, and “Qualite Supereur Line” with a tip opening of 6.

Model:  Benny Carter

Sax: tenor

Material:  metal

Chamber: large

Baffle: low

Description:  This ‘Benny Carter’ tenor mouthpiece is stamped ‘Connetable Paris’, ‘Benny Carter’ on the top, and ‘Rue Duperre’ on the shank. See the Benny Carter page for a slightly different version of a similar mouthpiece. Note that the above “Radio” mouthpiece model has the same stamp ‘Connetable Paris’.