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Re: Mouthpieces and reeds by the numbers

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2017-08-12 01:53

NBeaty wrote:

> While there is no doubt a difference between where the smallest
> feeler gauge will land and the "true" start to a curve, there's
> no way it would be 2mm on a professionally finished mouthpiece.
> The odds are that a few things are factoring in here:
>
> 1) variations in the glass/plaque
> 2) variations in the true thickness of the gauge
> 3) user error in measuring
> and most commonly
> 4) variation between what the proposed measurements of the
> model are and what that particular mouthpiece actually came out
> as.
> 5) the table is not flat (or flat with concavity in the middle)
>

Do non-Americans use the same set of Erick Brand feeler gauges that many Americans use? Is the "smallest feeler gauge" the same .0015" (.0385 mm) thickness that most American clarinet mouthpiece facers use?

Karl

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