Is there anywhere that I might find information about the theory of
mouthpiece design?   Things like how chamber shape, diameter, wall
thickness, ridges, etc. affects the air flow and what effect it has on
the tone produced?

Thank you,

David

I have not found any.  There are some empirical studies.  The Thesis by
Larry Wyman is a good read.  You need to order a copy.  See the Links -
Lterature, Info. area on the MouthpieceWork site.  The Ferron book has a
few pages.


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There are some articles by Santy Runyon on this site, I believe that 
cover some basics.  They are definitely worth reading.


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            Wed Jun 27, 2007 6:58 am (PST)

    Is there anywhere that I might find information about the theory of
    mouthpiece design? Things like how chamber shape, diameter, wall
    thickness, ridges, etc. affects the air flow and what effect it has on
    the tone produced?

    Thank you,

    David

Arthur Benade's "Fundamentals of Musical Acoustics" has a small
subsection entitled: "The Reed Cavity and Neck Proportions in Conical
Instruments" which is informative, as is the rest of the book.
(Truthfully, it is mostly 'over my head') It prob. won't do much in
practical sense helping you whittle a mouthpiece.  Maybe there is some
better text out there.




--- In MouthpieceWork@yahoogroups.com, "David Kulcinski"
<dkulcinski@...> wrote:
>
> Is there anywhere that I might find information about the theory of
> mouthpiece design?   Things like how chamber shape, diameter, wall
> thickness, ridges, etc. affects the air flow and what effect it has on
> the tone produced?
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> David
>

--- In MouthpieceWork@yahoogroups.com, Mark Sausville <saus@...> wrote:
> 
> There are some articles by Santy Runyon on this site, I believe that 
> cover some basics.  They are definitely worth reading.
> 
Well, I'm a newbie on this site and I must be doing something wrong
because I did an author search, separately, for Santy and Runyon and
NOTHING  came up.  When one does a search, does it search all the way
back to the beginning of the group, just the last "X" timeframe, the
whole groups site, or none-of-the-above?
> 
>     Thank you,
> 
>     David
>

Try this link  http://www.runyonproducts.com/articles.html

David Kulcinski <dkulcinski@...> wrote:                                  --- In MouthpieceWork@yahoogroups.com, Mark Sausville <saus@...> wrote:
 > 
 > There are some articles by Santy Runyon on this site, I believe that 
 > cover some basics.  They are definitely worth reading.
 > 
 Well, I'm a newbie on this site and I must be doing something wrong
 because I did an author search, separately, for Santy and Runyon and
 NOTHING  came up.  When one does a search, does it search all the way
 back to the beginning of the group, just the last "X" timeframe, the
 whole groups site, or none-of-the-above?
 > 
 >     Thank you,
 > 
 >     David
 >
 
 
     
                       



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Thank you.  I did an advanced search under "author".  I will look in the files area.

Some day I will get it right.

Thank you,

David

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