Print Email Facebook Twitter Influence of mouthpiece geometry on saxophone playing Title Influence of mouthpiece geometry on saxophone playing Author Carral, S. Lorenzoni, V. Verlinden, J.C. Faculty Industrial Design Engineering Department Design Engineering Date 2015-09-16 Abstract Saxophonists agree that the detailed geometry of the mouthpiece plays an important role in both playability and sound production of the saxophone. The hypothesis to be tested in this paper is whether there is difference in 1. radiated sound (in terms of spectral centroid and sound pressure level) and in 2. playability when playing mouthpieces with different internal geometries. The results revealed that the radiated sound is scarcely influenced, but that the playability differs significantly depending on the mouthpiece. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:a406fdaf-ca6d-40d7-92ba-6c7b34a2b053 Publisher Institute of Music Acoustics (Wiener Klangstil), University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna Source Proceedings of the 3rd Vienna Talk on Music Acoustics "Bridging the Gaps", Vienna, Austria, 16-19 September 2015 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2015 The Author(s) Files PDF 325279.pdf 1.21 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:a406fdaf-ca6d-40d7-92ba-6c7b34a2b053/datastream/OBJ/view