Hello, I have a friend that would like to purchase 3 glass gauges. Is it too late to order? If not, please send them to me at: Ben Redwine 1642 Cliff Drive ...
A Rovner ligature with a longer strap holds a mouthpiece firmly without shifting against the gauge for facing measurements. I made a longer strap using some...
Hi everybody. This is my first post! So, I find that mouthpeices are really interesting, but all of this stuff seems like a buch of gobbledy-gook. Where do I...
Welcome aboard, Zach. One of the first things to look at, in the archives, is a paper by Santy Runyon about Clarinet mouthpieces. This was a series of...
Anyone have a source for Sopranino Sax Mpc blanks or a source for inexpensive blanks? Need to do some experimenting here. Thanks & Happy Holidays! Steve W...
Bradford Behn is probably a new name to most of us. He launched a site a few months ago packed with information on his clarinet mouthpieces and mouthpieces in...
I was just looking at this info...there has been much rhetoric at SOTW about how the mouthpiece material is insignificant to the sound, as it is just a hard...
I'm a multi-degreed mechanical engineer with some experience and course work in acoustics and mechanical vibrations. Despite this "expert" background, I'm...
Players definately "feel" a difference in material. Plastic, wood, HR metal... This may translate into having some influence on a performance. I have never...
OK, I'll wade in here. There are very few mouthpieces that are available in identical chambers, identical shapes, except for material. One cannot compare a...
... HR ... Thanks for the interesting link, i will send my CV there... in my department nobody is able to play any kind of music. They are very nice scientists...
Very interesting comment regarding the width of the metal being more comfortable to tenor and bari players. I have figured that myself and added that the...
Paul, Your post on materials was very appreciated! It tied all the ends together for me. I have caught snatches of this thread in past entries, including the...
Is anyone else going to the Navy Saxophone Symposium in January? Keith and I have met up there twice before. Maybe we could have a mini refacing get together...
I wanted to echo that I have had similar experiances as Paul with the Runyon Delrin vs Metal Mouthpieces. I need to revise my stated opinion. Material can...
Anyone have a soprano HR .. blank for cheap ??? I don't even have one for my restoration curvie soprano Buffet Crampon ... also I could use a plain lig I......
I have Morgan 8L (Jazz) and 8EL (Excalibur)pieces that I got at the same time. I have measured the facings and chamber/chamber volumes and these are identical...
... From: sjrosner To: MouthpieceWork@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 11:28 AM Subject: [MouthpieceWork] Re: Does material matter? I have...
Hello everyone, I am relatively new in the mouthpiece refacing world...and just wanted everyone to know that all your posts and files/pictures has really...
You can check this yourself by printing the scale out and measuring it in mm. 50 on the scale = 25 mm. __________________________________ Yahoo! for Good -...
Hi from the UK, where the latest issue of the Clarinet & Saxophone Society magazine has an interesting article on Lomax clarinet mouthpieces. There is quite a...
As I recall, I did not see any of these at the Salt Lake City Utah ICS ClarinetFest in 2003, but I did see them at the 2004 Washington DC ClarinetFest. (They...
... If you can post a link to a picture of this, that would be interesting. As far as perturbation of airflow in the mouthpiece, another thing that comes to...