Author: Dan Shusta
Date: 2020-10-16 23:42
To Ken, Dave, and Paul...I found all of your responses to be excellent. The only exception would be Dave's because he concentrated his response on the "WHY?" which was what the OP was looking for.
Dave, although your response was quite complex in nature, because I've been in electronics for around 40 years, I understood your descriptive words and, IMO, I found your response to be "spot on". I made an attempt to simplify your response, however my detailed analysis became so long in nature that I simply abandoned it. I know that I could do it, however, I'm not sure the OP would understand it because I would have used a complex, audio oscillator analysis approach in my explanation.
So, to keep things simple, because the "WHY?" is so complex, I believe that simply following Ken's advice would probably be the best approach to finding that free blowing clarinet which would allow you to use a greater variety of various reeds.
p.s. I'm going to try and make an attempt to simplify the OP's question. By the nature of their design, clarinets and mouthpieces share a common denominator. Both of them can either be "free blowing" or "resistant". The degree of resistance of each is, of course, variable. If either the clarinet or the mouthpiece is quite resistant, your choice of reeds will most likely be limited to softer or have a lower resistance number. A freer blowing clarinet and mouthpiece combo should, in theory, allow you to be able to use a wider variety of reeds thus leading to a "reed friendly" clarinet system.
Just my opinion...
Post Edited (2020-10-17 00:34)
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