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Author: miguel
Date: 2002-01-15 05:35
Hello all, I had a question of interest to ask involving mouthpiece patches and kaspars. Will placing a mouthpiece patch on this mouthpiece change anything about it's playing? I only ask because I have a friend who said that he put a mouthpiece patch on his kaspar and it changed the sound, effectively ruining it. Personally, I think this is a load of bologna. But, opinions would be appreciated from anyone who has tried this with the same result or different results. Cheers!
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Author: Dee
Date: 2002-01-15 12:10
The moutpiece patch cannot change the sound. However, some people inadvertantly change their embouchure as a result of using one and that will affect the sound. The mouthpiece patch can also affect how you *perceive* the sound even though the sound does not change as it affects how the sound is conducted to your teeth, which of course then conducts it on through the bone to the ear, changing the relatively balance of the received sound components (air conduction + bone conduction).
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Author: Wes
Date: 2002-01-15 19:45
Some mouthpiece patches are very large and thick which, to me, dulls the sound by absorbing vibration of the top front part of the mouthpiece. Since my teeth are sensitive, I use a small thin patch. If one buys the thin, clear patches and, with a scissors, cuts them into two oval patches one gets a better patch at 1/2 the cost. Of course, one's perception may be different from the perception of the listener. Good Luck!
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Author: Dee
Date: 2002-01-15 20:16
The mouthpiece isn't supposed to be vibrating. Just the reed and the air column.
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Author: Brenda Siewert
Date: 2002-01-15 21:42
I use a very, very thin Bay mouthpiece patch on my Kaspar and it doesn't affect the sound in any way. It only makes the mouthpiece a bit more comfortable in my mouth and protects it from tooth marks--although I'm a double-lipper. A thick mouthpiece patch will affect the sound slightly--it will make it slightly duller. I'll leave the physics reasoning to the scientists among us--I just know I've tried both on several of my Kaspars and that's always the end result. The very thin one is the way to go if you don't want to change the way you sound when you play on the mouthpiece.
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Author: L. Omar Henderson
Date: 2002-01-17 13:50
Speaking of mouthpiece patches - I think that the price is atrocious for what you get (of course this is not a short term consumable and cash cow). Any ideas where to get (thin to medium) self-adhesive plastic sheets that one could fashion into patches?
The Doctor
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Author: Brenda Siewert
Date: 2002-01-18 14:30
I agree about the price. They are outrageous for what you get. Wish someone would market some as individuals to those of us on this board at a more realistic price.
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