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Author: krawfish3x
Date: 2003-11-01 18:35
just curious as to what it does and what different baffles will do to the sound.
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2003-11-01 18:46
I'm not sure, go to Mouthpiecework@yahoogroups.com, and ask, someone there does know. Much luck, Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: Synonymous Botch
Date: 2003-11-01 19:11
You'll get extensive descriptions from MojoBari, and others at Yahoo.
The essential notion is that the closer any boundary to the reed, the more reinforcement of the incident sound wave. (A gross simplification, that.)
For example, older Otto Link mouthpieces were typified by rounded surfaces and smoothed edges within the chamber.
Some of the new, 'high' baffle mouthpieces so brightly reflect sound that they are used to peel paint of schoolbusses.
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Author: Mark Pinner
Date: 2003-11-02 22:18
Simplistically a baffle disturbs, or distorts the airflow in some way. It usually speeds up the air in the same manner as an aircraft wing which has a convex top and a flat bottom. The air speeds up going over the top whilst staying the same on the bottom causing lift. Apologies to Hank Lehrer, this is the best I can do at short notice! The most important baffle in wind playing is the arch of the tongue. The tongue has a baffle effect long before the air gets into the mouthpiece, higher vowel sounds will speed the air up and vice versa. The ones in mouthpieces, more often sax mouthpieces, are made to assist with extreme high register. Runyon makes a whole bunch of different types including removable. I use a Berg Larsen stainless tenor mouthpiece, 115/1 M bullet, which has an integral baffle which helps with the altissimo, curiously it also helps the low register response which I can't explain.
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Author: allencole
Date: 2003-11-03 16:12
Bringing the baffle closer to the reed is a common way of trying to increase projection. Some of the New Orleans guys did it by adding chewing gum to the surface. Brilhart's "Artie Shaw" mouthpiece had a little projection built in.
Allen Cole
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Author: ron b
Date: 2003-11-04 00:19
Without the baffle, how d'you think it would fit in your mouth?
... and you thought you hear a lotta mpc complaints now.
- r![[cool]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/cool.gif) n b -
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Author: BobD
Date: 2003-11-04 16:58
I just got a soprano sax that had one of those little "m and m" thingees in the mp. Had never seen or heard of them b4.
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