Rick Denney wrote:... Is there a small funnel that sounds like a stereotypical funnel compared to a larger bowl that sounds like a stereotypical bowl?
In extremis, you could pair a Conn Helleberg 5E (euphonium) with a PT-88 ... might be interesting.
MaryAnn wrote:It would be fun if someone out there with the proper equipment, mindset, and free time, would do a "continuum study" of various mouthpiece parameters. That is, define a set of parameters and vary them one by one over a reasonable range of differences, and log the results. It would be cool.
Indeed it would!
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Mike, if you wanted to show the shape of the cup more accurately without sawing more of your pieces in half, you could just fill them with melted wax or another substance, and take them out when it sets. Take a picture parallel against a contrasting background, and there you have it.
Ryan_Beucke wrote:Mike, if you wanted to show the shape of the cup more accurately without sawing more of your pieces in half, you could just fill them with melted wax or another substance, and take them out when it sets. Take a picture parallel against a contrasting background, and there you have it.
Oh, we've got plenty of wax molds of my mouthpieces (as well as a few others ) around the shop. The first thing we did when I started getting really interested in design was to make molds of my favorite mouthpieces. However, I feel it's easier to visualise the air flow with these aluminum cutaways. (No brass mouthpieces were harmed.) My aim is not solely to show the difference in shape, but rather how that shape might affect the response of the mouthpiece. Plus, it's a lot more fun and hopefully instructive for folks to handle these things at conferences than a couple of blobs of wax (which I still have in a drawer somewhere....)
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Donn wrote:
Personally, I am attached to the notion that cup shape makes a predictable difference, but I can't defend it, knowing that there are other variables in play that I can't separate out.
) around the shop. The first thing we did when I started getting really interested in design was to make molds of my favorite mouthpieces. However, I feel it's easier to visualise the air flow with these aluminum cutaways. (No brass mouthpieces were harmed.) My aim is not solely to show the difference in shape, but rather how that shape might affect the response of the mouthpiece. Plus, it's a lot more fun and hopefully instructive for folks to handle these things at conferences than a couple of blobs of wax (which I still have in a drawer somewhere....)