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Re: Variation in mouthpiece designs

Author: Matt74
Date: 2022-01-26 05:49

I cannot get as many different sounds on a clarinet with one mouthpiece, as I can on a saxophone with one mouthpiece. I think this has something to do with the missing overtones.

IMO the clarinet has a more pleasing, but less alterable, natural sound. It has a stronger inherent character. The difference between jazz and classical, or between French and German setups aren't that striking.

It's harder to sound good on a saxophone, but it's a much more alterable natural sound. IMO that leads to different mouthpiece designs and approaches to sound. You can almost guess the decade by the sound. The variety of contexts that saxophones are played in is much greater than clarinets, so there is more demand for variety.

I've never heard the equivalent of a Meyer or Dukoff on a clarinet, so I don't actually know how it would sound. I imagine that they would not sound as different as they do on saxophones.

- Matthew Simington

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