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Re: Concave table questions

Author: Gregory Smith ★2017
Date: 2007-04-20 04:58

To add to the already voluminous and varied content already posted in this thread, some clarification about the distinction between machine made and hand made mouthpieces vis-a-vis table shape may be needed.

To be precise, there are machine made mouthpieces that are hand "finished" to use the term loosely (anywhere from Vandoren to Backun the obvious examples), and there are machine made blanks (Zinner or Babbitt for example) that can then be truly hand finished by the maker to a very high degree depending on the maker's desire AND depending on the maker's predetermined starting dimensions as ordered up directly from Hans Zinner or JJ Babbitt. The options in that case are almost limitless.

This distinction is significant because the maker can determine in their work on each mouthpiece whether or not, or to what degree they will employ what type of concavity.* This also includes the option of creating a flat table or convex table if they so choose. This option is not available for pre-made machine-finished mouthpieces unless one has the mouthpiece worked on later.

Gregory Smith

http://www.gregory-smith.com

*Indeed, the pronounced concavity of most Zinner blanks are viewed by their proponents as one of the mouthpiece's greatest assets - offsetting or working in a complimentary way with all other design elements that make the Zinner design unique and revolutionary in almost every way. As has already been stated, it's the final, manifest recipe that counts rather than what seems to work geometrically-speaking on any kind of theoretical drawing board.

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