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Re: A Note on single reed mouthpieces.

Author: Buster
Date: 2012-01-06 00:54

Don't know if my Mark VI can resonate "more perfectly with the cosmos" with this method.... but the reasoning behind it doesn't transfer over to the clarinet.

(I'll speak in concrete terms just for simplicity, none of these shapes are "perfect.")

The relationship between a conical-bore saxophone and its cylindrical-bore mouthpiece is wholly different than a cylindrical-bore clarinet and it's cylindrical-bore mouthpiece.

Basically:
-The clarinet mouthpiece is a continuance of the cylindrical bore.
-The saxophone mouthpiece is a divergence from the tapering conical bore.

Saxophone mouthpiece geometry is adjusted to compensate for this divergence, thus the availability of all of the large, medium, small chamber mouthpieces and complex internal shapes. (check out Theo Wanne's work to see some truly complex saxophone chambers)

But I really would like to hear my Selmer (or my clarinets for that matter) vibrate in perfect "harmony with the cosmos" to see what I've been missing.

-Jason

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