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mouthpiece interior design

Author: stevesklar
Date: 2007-02-05 16:13

I've searched on this site and can get bits and pieces of my questions so here it goes.

In clarinet mouthpiece design I'm trying to determine the qualities for what makes a dark but centered tonal quality mouthpiece versus a brighter and spread tonal qualities.

And, which mouthpieces out there may fit the varying design qualities.

Tom Ridenour seems to have a good general guideline on the tonal qualities but I would like to extend that a bit further with more information (if possible) and some possible examples.

http://www.ridenourclarinetproducts.com/interior.htm

I've been expanding my mouthpiece collection, but if I knew the qualities I was looking for I figured that I could just look at some of the characteristics and determine if it fit into the category, or better yet, know which ones fit into which category.

This may seem like a simplistic (or daunting) question but I know with sax mpcs I can look at it and know the approximate tonal characteristics that I would get with it. I'm trying to develop that same knowledge on the clarinet mouthpiece.

Of course, there are many variables such as mpc material, reed, ligature, oral cavity, etc and I really want to only look at the mpc and basically say that all others are equal for this question.

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