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Re: Is my mouthpiece too asymmetrical?

Author: TomS
Date: 2015-04-21 01:34

On asymmetric facings ... I played a Pyne (M series, I think) for a few months. had a lot of resistance and the sound was kinda hard in the upper clarion register ...

But, it tuned perfectly and played intervals very, very well. One of the section members highly complemented my sound ...

I gave it up, after a while ... had actually borrowed it from a lady that changed to a PK chamber (I think) ... It was really just too hard of a blow for me ...

I think some MP makers swear by asymmetric facings and others swear at them ...

When Elmer Aiello was developing the Marcellus MP, he was trying to get something to please. He noted that Robert Marcellus MP (Kaspar) had a very slight asymmetry in the facing ... so he added that to his prototype ... but nope, that didn't fix the design. I think it turned out to be something more mundane like the bore diameter and length ... the production MP had symmetrical facing, because what little crooked facing was in the original Kaspar MP didn't matter much.

As it turns out, it's more difficult to get symmetrical than asymmetrical ... any facing error will result in asymmetry ... although it could be too much/too little, wrong taper or on the wrong side.

Tom

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