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Author: BassetHorn
Date: 2005-11-01 21:26
Hello all, some of us might have known that certain clarinet and saxophone reeds are interchangeable due to size similarity alone, for example, tenor sax/bass clarinet, alto sax/alto clarinet, etc. I do this from time to time to great result.
Thinking this methodology should work equally well for the smaller horns, I tried first time to slap a basic Rico clarinet reed onto a soprano sax mouthpiece last night and found the reed to be too small for the mouthpiece, in fact so small that it doesn't even cover the window, let alone the rails.
Is this right? Can the size difference be this great? Or, are soprano sax reeds infact bigger than clarinet reeds?
The sax is a 1927 Conn straight body soprano. As far as I can make out, the mouthpiece is a M. Martin made in France, not sure how old this is. Anybody knows?
Could it be that there are size differences in soprano sax mouthpieces that neccessitate use of difference size reeds? Maybe the older models used to take larger size reeds?
Appreciate any input on this. Thanks.
Willy
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Author: ClariBone
Date: 2005-11-01 22:09
Have you searched the BBoard?? I got several hits when I typed in "soprano sax reed size". Give it a try...
Clayton
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Author: GBK
Date: 2005-11-01 22:27
Soprano sax reeds are wider and shorter than Bb clarinet reeds ...GBK
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