Mouthpieces
How to choose a Clarinet Mouthpiece
Citation: How to choose a Clarinet Mouthpiece. Amro Music. <http://www.amro
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Article Title: How to choose a Clarinet Mouthpiece
Author: N/A
Instrument: Clarinet
Magazine or Journal Title: Amro Music
Summary:
- Description of different parts of the Mouthpiece
- Tip Opening
- Narrow tip: resistant to air flow, easier played and darker sound
- Wider tip: Free blowing, louder, brighter, needs more control
- Facing
- Longer: robust tone
- Shorter: brilliant and clear
- Chamber
- Effects brightness
- Baffle
- Determines chamber size
High Baffle: smaller chamber, edgier tone
Low Baffle: larger chamber, darker tone
- Difference in materials
- Plastic Mouthpieces
- Durable
- Inexpensive
- Recommended for beginners for easier playing
- Hard Rubber
- Darker tone
- More expensive
- Blend will in ensembles
- Consistent tone
- All-purpose mouthpieces
- Recommended for advancing students
- Metal Mouthpieces
- Resonate faster than rubber
- Brighter, projected tone
- Sensitive to change in temperature
- Recommended for Jazz or Solo playing
- Do not blend well with other mouthpieces
music.com/how-to-choose-a-clarinet-mouthpiece>
Article Title: How to choose a Clarinet Mouthpiece
Author: N/A
Instrument: Clarinet
Magazine or Journal Title: Amro Music
Summary:
- Description of different parts of the Mouthpiece
- Tip Opening
- Narrow tip: resistant to air flow, easier played and darker sound
- Wider tip: Free blowing, louder, brighter, needs more control
- Facing
- Longer: robust tone
- Shorter: brilliant and clear
- Chamber
- Effects brightness
- Baffle
- Determines chamber size
High Baffle: smaller chamber, edgier tone
Low Baffle: larger chamber, darker tone
- Difference in materials
- Plastic Mouthpieces
- Durable
- Inexpensive
- Recommended for beginners for easier playing
- Hard Rubber
- Darker tone
- More expensive
- Blend will in ensembles
- Consistent tone
- All-purpose mouthpieces
- Recommended for advancing students
- Metal Mouthpieces
- Resonate faster than rubber
- Brighter, projected tone
- Sensitive to change in temperature
- Recommended for Jazz or Solo playing
- Do not blend well with other mouthpieces
Frank Kaspar’s Cicero Mouthpieces: The Stradivari Interview
Citation: Peatman, William B. Frank Kaspar’s Cicero Mouthpieces: The Stradivari Interview. The Clarinet, Jun. 2012, Vol. 39, Issue 3, p66.
Article Title: Frank Kaspar’s Cicero Mouthpieces: The Stradivari Interview
Author: William B. Peatman
Instrument: Clarinet
Magazine or Journal Title: The Clarinet
Summary:
- Manufacturers
Article Title: Frank Kaspar’s Cicero Mouthpieces: The Stradivari Interview
Author: William B. Peatman
Instrument: Clarinet
Magazine or Journal Title: The Clarinet
Summary:
- Manufacturers
- Now offer a variety of mouthpieces
- Frank Kaspar’s mouthpieces very esteemed
- Advent of numerically controlled machines, micrometers
- Precise measurements have been determined over 25 years
- Instruments will be evaluated with series of specific questions
- Vandoren mouthpieces have perfectly quadratic curves, good acoustically
- Length of lay
- Ligature makes lay length shorter
- Kaspar Mouthpieces have unsymmetrical rail heights
- Mouthpiece speaks more freely
- Chedeville: Tenon recorked, specially dimensioned bore, reworked baffle of chamber
- Kaspar’s have larger bores with smaller chambers
- Smaller baffle creates brightness to sound
- Kaspar No. 13 has very asymmetric baffels
- Beak is much thicker than other mouthpieces