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 Re: Clamp that sucker down!
Author: ClaV 
Date:   2015-02-28 04:14

The "diving board analogy" seems limited, if not counterproductive IMHO.
There are significant differences in function & operation of diving boards and reeds. Diving boards should serve as very good springs to store and release the energy upon jumping, they effectively operate at low frequencies (consequently, their firm attachment is the most important point). Reeds vibrate at much higher frequencies (kHz) and then the main function of the reed-ligature-mouthpiece-barrel system is to enable generation of the wide spectrum of frequencies, with the dominant frequency actually different from the natural resonant frequency of the reed itself (mounted to a mouthpiece).
Using Vandoren's analogy of reed being a clarinet "engine", the mouthpiece-ligature-barrel would be equivalent to a transmission system.

The complexity of the "transmission system" includes appreciably elastic mouthpiece material for hard rubber mouthpieces, transmission of vibrations to the mouthpiece-barrel, deformation of the reeds upon clamping and many others.

>So it would seem to me that if maximum vibration of the tip
>of the reed is our goal (and perhaps it is not...

The mouthpiece opening and facing length largely control the amplitude of the tip vibration of the reed and the reed vibrating length, respectively.
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