Klarinet Archive - Posting 000061.txt from 2002/09

From: Karl Krelove <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] reed strength for darker tone
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 23:13:08 -0400

Just to be clear for everyone reading this thread, the numbers indicating
length are not mm, but numbers on a scale produced by Eric Brand which has
over the years become a standard - 2 units of length equal 1 mm, so a 36-38
length is actually an 18 - 19 mm curve. The tip, as Bill Hausmann has cited
here, IS usually measured in mm, although sometimes it's given in 1/1000's
of an inch (e.g. .042"). Sometimes, though, the decimal is left out of the
metric measurement, so a tip opening of 1.02 mm is sometimes called a "102
tip opening." Not that it makes much difference when you're only comparing
one mouthpiece spec to another (as long as the units match), but if you
really want to know what the numbers mean, it would make a difference.

Karl Krelove

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Hausmann [mailto:bhausmann1@-----.net]
> Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 7:40 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] reed strength for darker tone
>
>
> At 10:58 PM 9/4/2002 -0700, William Wright wrote:
> >M13 and M13L facing lengths are in the middle range (36 - 38 mm). The
> >shortest facing on the chart is Selmer B at 28 mm and the longest is
> >Selmer 120 @-----.
>
> The tip opening on the Selmer 120 is actually 1.20mm. An unusual case
> where the name the company uses actually MEANS something! This
> also holds
> for the Selmer C85 115 and 105.
>
>
>
> Bill Hausmann bhausmann1@-----.net
> 451 Old Orchard Drive
> Essexville, MI 48732 ICQ UIN 4862265
>
> If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!
>
>
>
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