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Re: Tuning 3rd mode?

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2015-05-31 05:31

Also, I have stated elsewhere that the 1010 mouthpiece is also SHORTER in length than standard French mouthpieces.

You're absolutely right that you will have a hard time finding an expert on particular vintage horns. You will also find a hard time finding a working mouthpiece from that era designed for your horn (bore width and length, size and shape of the tone chamber, overall length of the mouthpiece and other factors).

These are the things that will HEAVILY influence the pitch of your horns. In fact it may be that they are designed to play higher than A=440 (or whatever pitch center you are using) and the result of moving the pitch center down is causing an untenable situation with the highest partials.

I strongly feel (my opinion only - if that's not already obvious) that you have a mouthpiece issue NOT a clarinet bore issue. The acoustic design of the total instrument must be determined and realized to work properly.

..................Paul Aviles

Post Edited (2015-05-31 05:56)

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