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Variation in mouthpiece designs

Author: ACCA
Date: 2022-01-24 19:49

Hi All
Among saxophone mouthpieces is huge variation in chamber size, baffle shape (step, rollover, flat) and chamber shape (round, horseshoe, square, etc). Among clarinet mouthpieces the differences are much more subtle. What are the reasons behind this? Preferences for a darker clarinet sound? Less financial reward for r&d compared with saxophonists who are notorious gear junkies :-) ? Or is there an actual acoustic reason why a clarinet mouthpiece with, for instance, a round chamber instead of the usual near-parallel sidewalls wouldn’t work? And what about window shape (rectangular on a clarinet versus semi-circle shape on most sax mp’s)?

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