Afmetingen van saxofoon rieten [Saxophone reed sizes]
Alle is te vinden op internet? Tot nu toe heb ik niets kunnen vinden over de afmetingen van saxofoon rieten. Dus meet ik het zelf maar op. Gelijk ook maar klarinet rieten toegevoegd.
Everything can be found on the internet? Until now I did not find the sizes of saxophone reeds. So I measured it myself. I also added the clarinet reeds.
instrument | measured brands | Length | width foot | width tip | thickness foot |
sopranino | |||||
c-soprano | |||||
soprano | Vandoren | 59.0 | 12.5 | 13.9 | 2.7 |
alto |
Vandoren |
71.5 73.7 |
14.3 14.8 |
16.0 16.6 |
3.1 3.5 |
c-melody | |||||
tenor | Vandoren Legere |
81 81 |
15.0 15.0 |
17 17.4 |
3.4 3.23 |
baritone | Vandoren | 88.5 | 16.3 | 18.6 | 3.7 |
bass | Masterpiece | 97.9 | 17.1 | 19.9 | 4.7 |
eb-clarinet | |||||
Bb-clarinet | vandoren | 62.3 | 11.6 | 13.0 | 3.1 |
alto clarinet | Apollo | 72.6 | 12.8 | 14.4 | 3.2 |
bass clarinet | vandoren la Voz |
81 |
15.0 |
17 |
3.4 |
contra alto clarinet | |||||
contra bass clarinet |
Rico |
88.7 | 17.1 17.3 |
19.3 19.6 |
3.3 3.8 |
This table is made to define the theoretical lengte of the c-melody and c-soprano mouthpieces.
The practicle length will be define by the requirement to use tenor of soprano reeds on this mouthpieces.
But the dimensions of the chamber have to be defined by the theoretica length.
You should think that there is a smooth relation between the basic frequency of the instrument and the length of the reed.
It looks like this:
Each dot is a type of reed from sopranino tot bass saxophone. Horizontal is the reed length in mm and vertical the ratio of the instrument basic frequency to that of the tenor.
When the theoretical c-soprano and sopranino reed length are set to resp 56 and 50 the line is as smooth as I like.
So my conclusiion is the c-soprano mouthpiece should be about 56 mm long.