Saxophone tweaks

[Enthalpy]

Hello everyone and everybody!

I suggest to use the reed and mouthpiece from an alto or bass clarinet on an alto or tenor saxophone with a special bocal. The sound of a woodwind depends strongly on them, here it might resemble a tárogató.

The bass clarinet and tenor saxophone can already swap the reed of similar size, but only a clarinet mouthpiece has a facing curve to match the clarinet reed's profile.

The designs differ much. Not only is the clarinet facing's curve steeper at the tip, the bore is also much smoother. The bocal fits in the saxophone's mouthpiece but surrounds the clarinet's one, demanding a new bocal design. Proper intonation needs to tweak the evolution of the section at the new bocal and possibly put an insert in the mouthpiece. Corrugations may be necessary at the entrance to soften the sound, as the saxophone has much wider tone holes than a clarinet or a tárogató. I suggested to produce the bocal by metal deposition or graphite composite on
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Whether a saxophone can play pianissimo then?

Marc Schaefer, aka Enthalpy

[Enthalpy]

I suggested to use reeds and mouthpieces from the clarinet family at the tárogatók and saxophones, there
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but the clarinet bore is wide. For instance the bass clarinet has 24.5mm bore, much wider than a tenor saxophone bocal.

The clarinet mouthpiece could receive an insert if the new bocal fits outside, or the new bocal could fit in the mouthpiece bore and an external part protect the cork.

In both cases, the new bore should have a profile that tunes the instrument, not necessarily a simple cone. Under the sloped section remains some excess volume, which a less simple part could reduce.

Marc Schaefer, aka Enthalpy