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Re: What exactly is a focused sound?

Author: Dan Shusta
Date: 2020-02-25 12:49

Thanks, Paul. I appreciate your informative response.

Brad Behn tells the differences between the "A" and "H" throat designs:

https://www.clarinetmouthpiece.com/mouthpiece-nomenclature-guide
Scroll down to THROAT

I find it interesting that he states: "The concept of A-framing a throat is to combine tonal concentration with freedom and flexibility." However, there is no mention of focus.

So... what can we possibly have here? A narrow focus, a wide focus, etc.?

Is any tonal concentrated sound a focused sound?

Is any tonal concentrated sound without the partials a truly desired "focused sound"?

In my writings above, I didn't use Brad Behn's information. I just found out that I unfortunately used a rather highly anti-Zinner biased source. (Sorry about that!)

So, again, are there numerous focused sounds? Narrow, wide, medium?

Is it simply the tonal concentration of the sound regardless of width?

I don't know...but this sure is interesting!

p.s. Ya know, the more I think about it...Karl is right. If you've got a bad reed, everything else could be perfect and you'll still have a "dud" sound in the output.

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