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Author: jmsa
Date: 2004-10-29 13:40
Can someone please tell me if a closed mouthpiece requires more air than an open mouthpiece and what are the dynamics.
jmsa
Post Edited (2004-10-29 20:19)
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Author: sfalexi
Date: 2004-10-29 17:53
My sense of logic would tell me that the smaller the opening, the less air can fit through and the less air would be needed. So a tuba player would not be able to hold a note as long as a clarinet player with a similar lung capacity.
As for dynamics, you can play pretty much any dynamic, with any mouthpiece.
The thing that the closed mouthpieces seem to do for ME is keep your sound focused and less wavering. There's less flexibility or unintentional chance of "bending" the note than in a more open mouthpiece (which I guess would be the reason that jazz players are often recommended to an open mouthpiece and well known classical mouthpieces often tend to be closed). Of course you have those exceptions like Benny Goodman who played a very closed mouthpiece and eddie daniels who does both jazz and classical on the SAME mouthpiece and I'm sure there are classical players out there with open mouthpieces, but this is just a "generality". There will always be exceptions to ANY "rule".
Alexi
US Army Japan Band
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Author: MikeH
Date: 2004-10-31 13:28
I read somewhere, sorry I cannot remember where, that Benny Goodman used a tip opening of .050. This hardly qualifies as close.
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