Klarinet Archive - Posting 000522.txt from 2000/10

From: GSmithClarinet@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] Mouthpieces - resistant or free blowing
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 11:40:33 -0400

In a message dated 10/10/2000 8:06:19 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
rgarrett@-----.edu writes:

<< I'm not sure the reason has anything to do with mouthpiece tip
openings or asymetrical vs. symetrical facings. Those assumptions seem
more useful in selling mouthpieces than determining reasons why we do or do
not have endurance >>

The fundamentals of acoustics tells us that all else being equal, a more open
tip provides more resistance. While it is not necessarily empirical fact that
asymmetry causes more resistance, it is reasonable from many players
descriptions (including mine) that it adds rather than subtracts from
resistance.

You've lost me. Neither of these have anything to do with the usefulness of
selling mouthpieces as you state nor do they seem to fit the separate
discussion of personal endurance.

Gregory Smith
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