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Author: seabreeze
Date: 2018-02-05 10:02
Simon,
Your generalization about French mouthpieces having narrower H chambers and German ones having wider A chambers is broadly true, especially if you take the very popular and widespread Vandoren mouthpieces as the French standard. But if you look a little further, it is clear that French mouthpieces by some other makers have had fairly wide A chambers. I have a 1920s Paris Selmer mouthpiece with a chamber that looks similar to your your photo of a German model though smaller. An A chamber also appears in the "air flow" table HS* medallion model Selmer that was issued as a limited production model to celebrate the company's 50th anniversary, I believe. The Gale 440 made by Gregory in Los Angeles had a big A chamber like that, and today Ben Redwine advertises a model with an A tone chamber. Jerry Hall mouthpieces had A chambers and that chamber has even been adopted by Zinner as the "angled wall" JH blank for French mouthpieces. Zinner's two other French models, the "A" model and the "E" model, both have regular French H chambers, but the Zinner "A" has a deeper baffle, and the Zinner E has a shallower baffle. Some Ralph Morgan and old Otto Link pieces--both American--had A chambers, and Brad Behn offers his custom made "Sono" model with that shape and roughly the size of a German chamber.
Here's a photo from his website: https://www.clarinetmouthpiece.com/sono-clarinet-mouthpieces.
Nick Kuckmeier in Austria has recently changed the fairly H shaped chamber in his Soloist M French model to more of an A shape though smaller than the A chamber found in most German models. So players looking for French style mouthpieces that will play on Buffet, Backun, Selmer and Yamaha French Boehm clarinets but still have an A chamber don't have to look very far to find one.When A chambers appear in French mouthpieces, however, they nearly always have less total volume than the A chambers found in German pieces. So, tone chamber volume may be even more of a distinction for the German pieces rather than shape. In them, the hollowed out chamber space is cavernous. In French pieces, the A chamber--when it is used--is more restricted in size.
Post Edited (2018-02-07 10:37)
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