Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2017-08-16 05:30
NBeaty wrote:
> Amongst clarinet refacers, that 0.0015 is universal. There are
> some people who use a different set (I've heard of some people
> using 20+ different feelers) after this 0.0015.
>
It's certainly universal among the players and mouthpiece craftsmen that I know, but they're all Americans. Do you know this to be a fact elsewhere in the world? And if it really is a global universal, why was that particular thickness picked Why not a more even metric value (.0015"=.0381 mm)? Why not .04 mm (.0015748") in Europe?
Erick Brand supplied 5 feelers in his mouthpiece refacing kit. Were those feelers arbitrary choices? Or do they represent particular articulation points on a specific type of curve that Brand, Chedeville, Kaspar and others were trying to apply by hand? Most players, at least of a certain age, recognize the facing 6-12-22-28-34 (with some variability in the first and last numbers). They're measured with the 5 feelers in the Brand kit. Do those numbers mean the same thing to everyone who plays clarinet?
I genuinely don't know and would like to find out.
This may be properly a topic for a separate thread, but it seems relevant to the idea of using numeric descriptors to match reeds and mouthpieces. A facing isn't only a tip opening and a curve length. And, as we've been agreeing, I think, if the length measurements aren't consistent, even they become less than useful.
Karl
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