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Re: Facing, tip opening, and reeds

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2018-11-26 00:20

Ken Lagace wrote:

> Facing Lengths may be 12-30mm although I have always worked
> between 20 and 27.
>

This surprises me a little, Ken. Are you using French (Boehm) style mouthpieces or German?

For the OP's benefit, my experience is that most French-style mouthpieces have curve lengths of 15-19 or 20 mm (there are certainly outliers, chosen by or made for individual players). The length is measured by holding the facing against a piece of flat glass (usually one marked in mm increments), lining up the zero marking on the glass with mouthpiece tip, sliding a thin feeler gauge - usually, by custom, .0015" - between the mouthpiece, and seeing how far from the tip (using the markings) the feeler stops. Obviously, if you measure this with a different feeler you'll see a different result. So, when someone tells you a facing is xx mm, you really need to know what thickness gauge was being used.

Karl

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