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Author: taragot
Date: 2013-03-19 01:50
Bradford Behn recently refaced my old Chedeville. He did an wonderful work. The mouthpiece has a beautiful sound. He also fixed my tarogato mouthpiece.
I am very happy with his work.
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Author: ruben
Date: 2013-03-19 09:51
If a tarogato mouthpiece isn't to be had, what can replace it? Thank you.
rubengreenbergparisfrance@gmail.com
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Author: JerryForsyth
Date: 2013-03-20 12:16
Is there a reference work anywhere to teach us what effect the various reworks on a mouthpiece are for? Like, what happens to the tone when you narrow the tip rail and what happens when you have a longer facing or a shorter facing and what the different air volumes provide and what makes a mouthpiece feel 'stuffy' and what makes it blow 'free' and what does altering the side rails actually do?
Has anyone ever put together a compendium of what affect these changes have on the sound that is produced?
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Author: Ed
Date: 2013-03-20 13:13
Tom Ridenour has an article on his site with some general guidelines. For those interested in the mechanics of facing you can check out this article:
http://www.musictrader.com/clarinetmouthpiecerefacing.pdf
Certainly the mouthpiece craftsmen can offer lots on the subject. In my experience, the facing is only one element. The bore, baffle, chamber, curve, etc all have great influence on feel and playability. I have played a number of mouthpieces that feel quite different than what the facing dimensions would suggest, due to other factors.
Post Edited (2013-03-20 14:46)
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Author: rtmyth
Date: 2013-03-20 14:25
Lee Gibson discusses mp dimensions in his book Clarinet Acoustics.
richard smith
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Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2013-03-20 17:18
Lee Gibson provides a sampling of mouthpiece dimensions without demonstrating much knowledge of what they mean, IMO. There are better sources.
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Author: Bill
Date: 2013-03-22 19:38
Ditto David S.'s comments about Lee Gibson. Read that book two or three times and (almost) everything I've learned empirically contradicts it.
Bill Fogle
Ellsworth, Maine
(formerly Washington, DC)
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Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2013-03-22 20:00
David Spiegelthal wrote:
> Lee Gibson provides a sampling of mouthpiece dimensions without
> demonstrating much knowledge of what they mean, IMO. There are
> better sources.
I haven't read Gibson's book, but I'm interested to know what some of the better sources are. There's so much nonsense broadcast about mouthpiece mechanics that I'd really like to read something based on real information.
Karl
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