Author: Simon Aldrich
Date: 2018-01-04 22:15
Karl, you have touched on a larger issue, which should be mentioned eventually in any rail-adjusting discussion.
"To cut far enough into the rails to level them, are you taking enough out of the internal volume to affect the mouthpiece's tone and pitch,"
Mouthpiece craftsmen mention that the design of a mpc is a recipe of more than a dozen ingredients (tip-opening, opening curve, facing length, facing symmetry, rail thickness, baffle depth, upper baffle depth, throat shape, sidewall angle, beak angle, bore volume and taper, window shape, width and length, etc). (see www.clarinetmouthpiece.com/nomenclature/ for a better explanation).
Greg Smith mentioned to me that one cannot alter one of the ingredients without affecting all the others.
This appears to be where the art (and experience) of mpc-making comes in to play.
Simon
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