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 Re: Facial-Flex for toning Orbicularis oris muscle
Author: kdk ★2017
Date:   2022-05-22 21:10

SunnyDaze wrote:

> It seems as though Brad Behn was producing a Zinner mp with a
> 0.95 tip opening for a while but not any more.
>

Clark Fobes also sells his mouthpieces in facings that include 0.96 mm tips. I'm sure there are a number of makers who sell their mouthpieces with tips in the 1.00 mm range.

> Would it work if I asked my local shop to reface my spare Hite
> D to have a tip opening of 0.95? I think they could do that.
>

It might. Some mouthpiece designs (the inside parameters - chamber, baffle height, throat size, bore size) work well with close tips and some don't. You can have nearly any facing put on a mouthpiece - but no guarantee it will work.

The other half of those Wurlitzer facings is the 29 mm curve length. You have the right idea - that's the length from the tip to the place where the curve begins above the table, where you were able to see daylight between the mouthpiece and the reed. The measurement is usually done more precisely using a flat piece of glass and a feeler gauge - usually (since Erick Brand's kits became popular back in my student days) .0015" (ca .0381 mm). Most French style mouthpieces fall in a range from 15 mm (fairly rare) to 19 mm with the most common curve length being around 16-17 mm. The longer the curve, in general, the less resistance the facing provides, so a very close tip and a very long curve need differently contoured reeds.

One production-line mouthpiece you might consider is a Gigliotti P facing. It was designed to have a .097 mm tip and a 19 mm length. I don't know if the newer ones have stayed with those measurements (I would expect they have), but it comes as close as any French mouthpiece to the close/long facing of the German examples.

Karl
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