Author: mschmidt
Date: 2010-07-16 04:50
I think if the author could have actually articulated the ways in which these different variables affect tone, stability and pitch, he would have. We all have a sense that all of these matter, but most of us just find what works for us. It's a difficult matter to do a controlled experiment where only the ovalness is varied, or only the taper. We have a bunch of staples (Chudnow, Rigotti, Guercio, Lorée) each of which varies from the others in most, if not all, the variables. Does the Chudnow not work well for me because of the size of the opening, or the relative lack of taper? (Those are correlated to some extent, of course.) I think the way to answer this question is with a theoretical acoustical model, but, last I checked, there aren't really any sophisticated enough to predict the effects of such subtleties.
Mike
Still an Amateur, but not really middle-aged anymore
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