Klarinet Archive - Posting 000050.txt from 2000/01

From: Keith <100012.1302@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] klarinet Digest 2 Jan 2000 21:15:00 -0000 Issue 1947
Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2000 19:49:54 -0500

Dan,

Delighted to see you sorting out the pap :-).

=46rom an engineering point of view, I agree with your statement
concerning reproducibility. I suspect that sometimes it is poor
metrology, and sometimes not knowing what measurements
are really the critical ones, and sometimes (but not often) =

material instability.

However, I don't think you can always decouple the mouthpiece
as you suggest. I have certainly experienced mouthpieces that
were very good on one good instrument and poor on another
(eg a Hite was excellent on a Selmer bass but poor on a (better)
Buffet). I am also prepared to believe that the oral cavities make
some mouthpieces more suitable for some people than for =

others. (I'm not asserting this, mind, just saying that it is worthy
of investigation!). I would look into acoustical impedance
matching as a possible reason for the differences in both
cases.

Keith Bowen

<from Dan Leeson>
>This is not at all true with the other parts and pieces of a clarinet.
An excellent instrument coupled with a bad mouthpiece is valuable
information, but an excellent mouthpiece is excellent in and of itself
and should be able to be described in clear, unambiguous, and
articulate ways. =

>In theory, a mouthpiece maker with the right set of tools should be
able to craft a brilliant mouthpiece every time without ever trying
it out on a clarinet. It is the deficiencies of the tools used in
the creation of the mouthpiece (or perhaps the imprecision is a better
word) that requires them to be played to assure that what one has is
useful.
......
Bottom line: there is a lot of pap out there on the list and very
little substantive material that is useful. At least that has been
my observation thus far.

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