A Study of Lip Shield for Wood Wind Instrument Playrs

当单簧管演奏者（萨克斯管演奏者和单簧管演奏者）演奏乐器时，他们中的大多数人都有不舒服的感觉，这是由于不均匀或尖锐的下门牙压迫下唇造成的。唇罩是一种可拆卸的夹板，主要用于防止单簧演奏者下唇的慢性疼痛，通过在下切牙上覆盖一些材料，虽然人们普遍认为唇罩可以改善音质和可控性，但对唇罩的形状和材料的实验研究很少。通过我们的声学实验，我们发现，在三种不同形状的丙烯酸树脂制成的唇罩中，我们称之为“中野模型”的新型唇罩在中间略微膨胀，表现出最好的音质和可控性。本研究针对四种材质的“中野型”唇罩，进行音质差异的声学分析。

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.