1994 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
A Study of Lip Shield for Wood Wind Instrument Playrs
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05807188
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
補綴理工系歯学
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| Research Institution | Aichi-gakuin University |
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Principal Investigator |
NAKANO Kazuhiko Aichi-Gakuin Univ., School of Dentistry, Associate Professor, 歯学部・歯科補綴学講座, 講師 (80183515)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
SUGIMOTO Taizo Aichi-Gakuin Univ., School of Dentistry, Research fellow, 歯学部・歯科補綴学講座, 助手 (70192127)
HIRANUMA Kenji Aichi-Gakuin Univ., School of Dentistry, Professor, 歯学部・歯科補綴学講座, 教授 (00064783)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1993 – 1994
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| Keywords | Wood wind instrument / Lip shield / Acoustic analysis / Wind instrument / FFT analyzer / Instrument / Clarinet / Saxophone |
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| Research Abstract |
When single reed playrs (saxophonists and clarinetists) play their instruments, most of them have uncomfortable feelings caused by uneven or sharp lower incisor teeth which press their lower lips. The lip shield is a kind of removable splint basically for avoiding chronic pain in the lower lip of the single reed playr by overing the lower incisor teeth with ome materials.
While it is said that the tone quality and controllability are generally improved when the lip shield is attached, an experimental study on the shape and material of a lip shields has seldom been conducted.
Through our acoustic experiment, we found that out of the three types of lip shields made of acrylic resin in different shapes, the new one, which we call "Nakano Model", swelling slightly in the middle, exhibited the best tone quality and controllability. And this study addresses an acoustic analysis of the difference in tone quality of four materials shaped into the "Nakano Model" lip shield.
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