Baffles: Too Low or Too High?

[@Ryan_____________________]

Im so glad your back, the clarinet community missed you!

[@AnonymousBN]

I missed your videos! Super interesting video, thank you for sharing. I'm going to test my mouthpieces now

[@AllieClarinet]

#3, what color!

[@hexaeth]

Dale, I’m so glad to see you back! Missed your videos very much!

[@partticle2222]

.. Awesome Information Dale! ThX!! .. Great Videos!!

[@clarinetninja]

Great work on this! Thank you

[@finleyjones1780]

Yesss!!! Glad you’re back Dale! Great vid

[@saxifonus]

Thank you!! This helps tremendously!! Oh and love the vibrato!!

[@orestfilipov4000]

Hi Dale! I reface mouthpieces. Mostly for myself, but i corrected a few for my friends. I play only those which i refaced. On my clarinet and saxes. Well, something that you demonstrated looks veeeery like a Convex table. I had the same issue with my mouthpieces until i discovered that most of them were convex. Sometimes it's so little convex that mouthpiece plays kinda nice. But then appears what you've just demonstrated. Just sharing my experience here.

[@chrissereque8716]

Nice Traviata! I have noticed with Zinner A blanks that they seem to improve in resistance and tone color after being refaced several times. I always wondered why, but it does seem that the original baffles were too deep.

[@floridaclarinetstudio2338]

Another masterful Video! GREAT time stamps- everyone should go back and forth here listening and comparing shapes and colors of sound. Thank you for making us think about all these things and REALLY consider how each variable effects our SOUND! If nothing else this will drive real clarinet players to experiment with and try equipment in their quest for NOT just their best SOUND but a TRUE ease in PLAYING- Above all we must be effective, beautiful and NON exhausted clarinetists. #thxdale #cantsaysoundenough

[@jimis3167]

Ever had mouthpieces that play appropriately with 2.5 strength reeds? I do, a Kaspar Ann Arbor and BG B3. I think playing with such light reeds I have more flexibility, though very high notes can be problematic. I wish there would be 2.5+ V12. I need to use Traditional 2.5 for the very high notes.

[@diegojorge9659]

I would say that the table of the mouthpiece can trick you un this test. When you push with your thumb in the table tail maybe the Air is licking some where and that is the reason why is loosing power. Maybe a convex table or even the reed table is not flat at all. When you bite the main diference is that you are bringing the facing length Closer to the tip and consecuenly, making the reed works harder and of course getting It Closer to the baffle. There's pleny factors in this way that can make all this testing work in a very differnt way in each piece I think.

[@emjay2045]

Exactly!!

[@smokingjazz5067]

Do you sell some of these mouthpieces?

[@jacquesst-laurent416]

Three Henri Cheds?!!

[@travlak]

Just received my first professional wooden clarinet, a Selmer 10S. With the included 66mm barrel, it tends to play flat, but as I’ve been through my mouthpieces, I’ve found that, coincidentally or not, the Selmer USA plastic Goldentone 3 brings it up to pitch the best so far. I haven’t seen much of a baffle on most clarinet mouthpieces; I’m guessing the Goldentone would count as a high baffle mouthpiece?

[@milosmilojevic2376]

Hi Dale! Do you have mp's and clarinets for sale? Thank you anyway

[@susanmasters2164]

What clarinet are you using?