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Author: Karel Vahala
Date: 1999-12-25 08:28
This is probably a ridiculous question: In view of the fact that the vertical internal walls of a mouthpiece will have a different relationship to the tone holes of the body of the clarinet depending on how the mouthpiece is positioned during assembly, is there a known effect on th performance of the instrument? Thanks for any input, Karel.
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Author: Karel Vahala
Date: 1999-12-26 13:53
Apologies for the question - while the mouthpiece can vary in assembly to the barrel, this will obviously make no difference to its position on the instrument.
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Author: Hiroshi
Date: 1999-12-27 03:28
Your question may have a certain basis.There are parallel wall(French style) and angled wall(German sytle) mouthpieces.The latters have darker tones including many overtones.Certain manufacturers can make angled wall French style mouthpieces such as Greg Smith. You can see how they look like in his homepage in the sponser page of this BBS.
p.s.
Hite is making a mouthpiece that has parallel wall mouthpiece but with rounded corner to smooth up the tones.
As to Saxophone there are round hole and rectangular hole mouthpieces.There are certain reasons they are making these variations.
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Author: Jim Carabetta
Date: 1999-12-27 17:20
Karel:
As Hiroshi said, the walls of the mouthpiece chamber, maybe not in relation to the tone holes, but certainly in relation to the effect on restricting or compressing airflow, will have a significant effect on your sound. My jazz mouthpiece is a Runyon with a diamond-shaped chamber; the restriction of the airflow through the shank results in a edgy, bright sound and a response not easily accomplished with wide open round chambers. I can throw in a removeable baffle and create yet another array of tone colors by altering the airflow.
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