Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Smaller mouthpiece for bigger horn


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Posted by Doug Elliott on December 12, 2003 at 23:04:23:

In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Smaller mouthpiece for bigger horn posted by Rick Denney on December 12, 2003 at 12:25:18:

I think most of the literature on that subject is BS. That "broad, single-humped, frequency response curve" is just the one harmonic that the a short tube called a mouthpiece will produce. If you want to talk about the mouthpiece as a separate part from the horn, then you have to also talk about the horn as a separate part. What kind of response curve do you get from a tuba with no mouthpiece? It doesn't matter, because you don't play it that way. You play the combination, and that's all that matters.

Of course "Tubas have a curve with a series of resonance peaks, or spikes, over a range of harmonics." It's a long enough air column to resonate.

In backbores, there is a small range that works on a given horn. It doesn't have that much to do with how strong you are.

I have to go make mouthpieces now...


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