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Re: Facing, tip opening, and reeds

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2018-11-27 08:28

Hey vintschevski,

I cannot speak to that mouthpiece, I never saw one. It's a little hard to for me to imagine exactly what the hybrid description means. A German mouthpiece has a thinner circumference than Boehm but it is just slightly longer. The tone chamber doesn't taper very much at all, so when you look up the bottom end of a German mouthpiece it looks almost as if the bore continues straight out.

I also do not know to what he is referring when he speaks of a "deep German baffle." I had a good sit down with Walter Grabner who showed me that there is a finite measurement from the bottom of the window measuring from the table level down to the how deep the baffle can be (apparently if this is too deep the mouthpiece just sounds flaccid). If that is what Mr. Krass is talking about, I can say that this particular dimension is actually quite a bit SHALLOWER on my Wurlitzers and Viotto than Vandoren (perhaps as much as 3.00mm !!!).

Without having a Krass on hand though I don't want to comment further.

..............Paul Aviles

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