Author: donald
Date: 2023-06-06 15:37
Hi Paul, the Zinner "A model" was not the A frame model that was sold as a blank. The two most popular Zinner blanks, "A" and "E" were most obviously differentiated by the baffle (A= double concave, E=flatter profile with much less concavity widthwise). The "A frame" model, I don't know if that had another designation or was just called the "A frame". But a Zinner "A blank" had a parallel throat configuration, as did the "E blank".
I ask Clark to confirm if you like- it's a bit confusing so likely you misunderstood him, as none of the Fobes mouthpieces I've seen were made from anything resembling the Zinner A frame blank (with sidewalls as angled as a typical German mouthpiece).
Jerry Hall used the "A frame" blank for his abominations, but most makers were already finding the "A blank" too lacking in "sparkle" (the upper register sounded very sweet, but the lower register lacked definition) and so only used the A FRAME blank on request.
I can remember Dan Paprocki saying this about the Zinner A blank in 1998, that it was lacking in sparkle/projection/ring and I thought he was being a bit too much of a Chedeville snob at the time, but within a few years had come to agree with him more or less. (didn't stop me playing on Zinner A blanks pretty much exclusively from 1996 to 2016).
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