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Author: Dan Shusta
Date: 2024-08-13 08:05

Concerning thick tip rails...playing with a thick or wide tip rail is the same thing as playing with a very thin tip rail with the tip of the reed extending beyond the tip wherein the distance from the reed tip to the inside edge of the tip rail is equal to the width of the original wide rail tip. Result...increased resistance due to the fact that the back pressure wave is hitting against a thicker part of the reed.

Now as to wide side rails...as you increase the thickness of the side rails, this narrows the distance between the rails which in turn means that less back pressure is available to push the reed away from the facing. Yes, there is a spring like effect involved, however, a thinner side rail would simply provide more back pressure against the reed. The result of this would be reduced resistance.

Just my analytical opinions...

p.s. Here is what Tom Ridenour has to say about thick side rails (skip to page 3):

https://lindseybresourcefile.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/7/5/13753093/article-understanding_clarinet_mouthpiece_facings.pdf

p.p.s. Karl, when you wrote: "You may have thought of them as included in "baffle/internals," but the throat size and shape and the bore size beyond the throat will have an influence", I remembered what a SYOS clarinet mouthpiece page had to say about different throat chamber shapes. Here it is:

https://syos.co/en-us/blogs/news/all-about-the-clarinet-mouthpiece-s-chamber?_pos=3&_psq=clarinet+mouthpiece+design+differences&_ss=e&_v=1.0

Post Edited (2024-08-13 08:47)

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