Klarinet Archive - Posting 000994.txt from 1999/10

From: "Doug Sears" <dsears@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] should the embouchure move?
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 19:31:04 -0400

>do the engineers on the list think about how an extremely broad mouthpiece
>would affect the tone of an otherwise normal instrument? The human mouth
>could actually accomodate, say, a 3 inch wide mouthpiece (not comfortably,
>granted, but...). Assuming the length of the mouthpiece and the height of
>the interior chamber were the same as on, say, a Vandoren B45, how would such
>a mouthpiece sound on a soprano clarinet?
>
>Lelia

I once made an adapter to attach a tenor sax mouthpiece to a clarinet. I got a
big raw sound that I thought would be good for Greek folk music. It had
intonation problems, and high notes weren't so good. Maybe a stiffer reed would
have helped.

>proof of non-hippopotamus mouth:
> <A HREF@-----.htm">Scarlet Street Staff
></A>
>(but I'm not actually a hunchback -- that's my hair)

The day before Halloween: an appropriate date to post Scarlet Street's URL.

--Doug

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