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Re: Bay Bass clarinet mouthpieces and others

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2014-08-16 06:44

And it is even more confusing than this. Wider side rails make the system more resistant (and the opposite is true). Then there is the baffle. If the baffle is flatter or even somewhat convex, there is a "slap back" air pressure effect on the reed that makes the system more free blowing (and the opposite is true). So, you cannot simply take the basic dimensions of one mouthpiece with which you are familiar and assume that those dimensions will mean another makers mouthpiece with those same basic dimensions will play the same.

More directly to your question: you can take one specific length of the lay and go through every imaginable tip opening with it; then go to the next length lay and go through every imaginable tip opening......etc.

How you play, what strength reed you use and what type of control you want are all factors to consider.

...........Paul Aviles

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